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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Choosing skill level for menu options
From:       Chris Howells <chris () chrishowells ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-02-19 8:45:17
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On Tuesday 19 February 2002 8:01 am, Chen Shapira wrote:
> Usually a bad idea.

I'd say always a bad idea.

Do you don't see anything like this elsewhere in KDE? No?

That's because there's a somewhat unwritten rule (although might even be the 
style guide, don't know) that such things are a bad way of doing GUIs. The 
software should be well designed enough so that it's easy enough for newbies 
to fine the options that they want, and for the power users to find all the 
options that they need.

Rather laughably, this is the exact way that GNOME's Nautilus starts up. Users 
just want to start managing files, not worry about which of the ten ways ways 
they can do it.

- -- 
Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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