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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Choosing skill level for menu options
From:       Alistair Davidson <lord_inh () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-02-20 2:33:46
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Chris Howells wrote:

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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.

IMO it's based on a fundementally misguided concept of usability. The aim of 
usability is to deliver as much power as you can as simply as you can. Making 
the interface easy to learn for newbies is really just one part of a very 
large picture.

-- 
Alistair Davidson
Read my comic, Bizmatch! http://www.altgeek.org/lord_inh/comic/index.html
"Disloyalty in a democracy is to stop asking questions."


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