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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: A radical idea
From:       Chris Howells <chris () chrishowells ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-11-12 22:41:07
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On Monday 12 November 2001 21:34, Alistair Davidson wrote:

> > What you're talking about is fundamentally redesigning UNIX (30 years
> > old) from the ground up -- not a trivial change to KDE.
>
> No, I'm not.

Ah, sorry, mis-read your message slightly ;)

>
> Me: "Anyway, that's the principle, how would it work in practise?
>
> An alternate file-browser that presents its own, user-friendly, directory
> structure is one option."
>
>
> See? A KDE file browser that takes the usual UNIX directory structure and
> represents it in an entirely different way when the user is interacting
> with it.

Well, what your suggesting seems to me pretty much what MacOS and Windows 
have been doing for a while now. Trying to hid complicated things before a 
facade which tries to make them appear simpler.

I don't know whether this is actually successful in helping the user, or now 
(although I do know that it annoys *me* immensley -- I hate software trying 
to be clever and failing miserably).

I'm sure that you could make these suggestions to Konqueror pretty easily, if 
you wanted to, BTW.

- -- 
Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt
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