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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Idiot proof kmenu
From:       Eric Ellsworth <whalesuit () softhome ! net>
Date:       2002-06-07 19:49:41
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Hi Christoph,
	Welcome to the conversation... Here's some thoughts about your menu design:
The upsides:
	+ Short and sweet - I like that.  
	+ I also like that it puts really common newbie tasks on the root menu.  I 
think we should keep thinking on how to accomplish this.
	+ I like saying the phrase "Change your desktop settings" for Control Center 
	I'd propose putting (KDE Control Center) in parenthesis.  Your phrase brings 
up the semantic problem that KDE is a "Desktop Environment" which is an awful 
phrase to say to novice, and one element of the "Desktop Environment" is a 
desktop.  

Downsides:
	- As linguistically elegant as it is to complete your sentence "Start here 
... to do this task" (I always want to make sentences), I'm gradually coming 
ot the conclusion that people won't often recognize it as a sentence, so 
	- "to Use", "to Create", etc. sound incomplete.
	- The verbs don't make it clear


Keep hacking though, we're going places now....

Cheers,

EE
On Friday 07 June 2002 9:26 am, Christoph Held wrote:
> Hi
>
> Most discussion here is about adding freaky features, but forget making it
> simple. If kde is supposed to be successfull in the market (I don't know if
> it is aimed to be), kde must support the 50 years old, female secretary who
> doesn't know anything but windows and hasn't yet figured out the difference
> between a single and a double click.
>
> I have modified a couple of lines and made a menu, the biggest windows
> idiot should be able to use. It is still ugly and needs further thinking...
>
> It is aimed to be an alternative option not a replacement. This (or
> something simelar) should make kde rollouts in goverments much simpler...
>
> screenshots, binaries, sources:
> http://home.in.tum.de/~held/kmenu/
>
> Greetings
>
> Christoph
>
>
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