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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: The art of not offering customization
From:       Irwin <emerald-arcana () rogers ! com>
Date:       2002-05-30 3:33:08
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On May 29, 2002 14:40 pm, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> > a good project for an ambitious non-coder (or three =) might be to go
>
> through
>
> > each and every kcm and make a listing of all the features, what they do,
>
> and
>
> > where they currently are. from there, map out what the conceptual
> > relationships really are between the options. then, based on that
> > mapping, come up with a suggested organization of the features and
> > provide a comparison to what currently is there.
>
> Excellent idea. I would volunteer but being a coder and generally technical
> person, I don't know how suitable my viewpoint would be ;)

Actually you don't even NEED a viewpoint.  As a most BASIC starting point if 
someone with some time can go through a module and write down what they do 
and what they affect (without any organization whatsoever.  We want sort of a 
blank slate here) then we can see what functionality we have and see which of 
it... from a blank slate perspective... is useful and useless.

Once we ax out whatever's useless, we can start to sort everything according 
to a logical format based on what we see.

We are essentially looking at requirements gathering here: we are looking at 
what we want to accomplish with KControl.  We keep complaining about the kcm 
modules but we don't even know what's in them!  I think that's half of the 
problem.  When we find out what's in them we can discuss how we want to lay 
out the new KCM's.  

If I have an idle moment, I'll start with the "Look and Feel" modules and post 
my results (or my partial results).  My KDE version is a KDE 3.0.0.

I would recommend that such a major haulover of KControl not be committed 
until KDE 4.  Users don't expect huge changes from v3 to v3.1.  They can 
forgive it if it's from v3.1 to v4.

Seeing how big KControl is, I wouldn't be surprised if arrangement (and 
agreement) of everything actually took a year anyway.

- -- 
- -- Irwin 
(Arcana)
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