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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: TOM write-up
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-06-11 0:10:03
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On June 10, 2002 05:54 pm, Eric Ellsworth wrote:
> Quick addendum to that:
> 	{W} means I think that novices would want some kind of help (like a
> wizard) when they click on this item.
> 	{1st->W} means such a wizard would be launched the first time the user
> clicked on this item.

should we perhaps have a set group of these ready for re-use? e.g. a TOM menu 
entry may be for checking your bank account in konqueror and when it is run 
for the first time it may ask what the URL is (and perhaps what user agent to 
masq as, since that's common for banks and alternative browsers)... but that 
same wizard would be quite useful for other items as well, so perhaps it 
should be a generic service in the TOM menu?

this also begs the question of whether this information should remain in the 
TOM menu task group configs or if a corresponding .desktop file should be 
created in the $KDEHOME/share/applnk ...  right now TOM relies completely on 
.desktop files in applnk directories, as I believe it should. =)

> 	For Office-Specific programs (which is terrible terminology, BTW), I was

Business Application?

> thinking of programs that an enterprise may have that few others have -
> databases, custom software, unusual software, etc.

that's what the "Modify these tasks" entry in each task group is for ...

> 	For Connect to a boxen, I was thinking about the fact that lots of

can we avoid the word "boxen" and use "remote system" or "server"? perhaps 
"Start a command line session on a remote system", only less verbose ;-)

> university students and others read email on the server using Pine or a
> similar program. So this would really be a wizard to set up SSH
> connections.

this could also be served well by a TOMWizard service, if it was designed 
generically enough..

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Aaron J. Seigo
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