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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Improving the Application-Starting Process
From:       Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date:       2002-06-08 20:25:00
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On Saturday 08 June 2002 22:03, Alistair Davidson wrote:
> Also, console and text editor are really just geek
> tools, I would expect anyone who needs to use the console knows how to
> add it to the Panel by themselves.

I certainly wouldn't say so. Text editors and the console are used a lot in 
science, where almost every article is written in LaTeX. Although some people 
at out department don't know how to even configure KDE, they know how to 
start their text editor to edit the tex files, and how to change to the 
directory in the console and run latex texfile.tex there. 
Currently, Linux (and thus kde) is used a lot at universities (here the Math 
department at the technical university run almost exclusively on linux, and 
the same is the case for the physics department at the university), and there 
using a text editor is certainly not only for power users, but the most 
common thing (except from reading email -- even with pine).

Please don't understand me wrong. I think making KDE mum-proof is really 
important, but when redisigning we should certainly not forget the current 
userbase. 

Reinhold



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