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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    KDE Usability White Papers
From:       Irwin <emerald-arcana () rogers ! com>
Date:       2002-05-26 4:24:06
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On May 23, 2002 12:59 pm, Eric Ellsworth wrote:
> Agreed.  How would you recommend doing this?
> Would it be useful to write a brief ~1p overview of what each usability
> effort will try to accomplish before launch into it?
>
> And I second Aaron's idea for an repository for ui files and images.  Those
> give a great visual representation of what's going on and are much easier
> to follow that text.

We need records of what we have concluded as a result of usability 
discussions.  Not necessarily just "archives" but in fact "reports".  As in, 
"Reports that could be published under IEEE Usability".

Basically we should assemble a list of the most discussed topics on the KDE 
mailing list and take as many of the viewpoints as possible.  If anyone here 
is a Graduate Student in Human-Computer Interaction I think there would be a 
great justification to your supervisor for doing this... it's like the "Top # 
of things that people complain about in KDE", with the arguments and facts to 
support the arguments.

This is hard.  However, what SHOULD be done is that every time we do a commit, 
we should discuss WHAT the problem was before we committed (with screenshots 
and an example of why it was so bad), WHY it's bad, and what we did to FIX 
the problem (with after screenshots).  It should be a mandatory thing with 
every CVS commit.  The programmer doesn't have to do it but someone here 
should.

Blah Blah Blah Blah, hey?  I put this apology at the end because I'm spouting 
all of this crap and I'm not going to be able to do any of it myself.  I'm 
sorry.

- -- 
- -- Irwin 
(Arcana)
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