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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KOffice Dialog Box
From:       Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date:       2002-06-15 17:36:14
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On Saturday 15 June 2002 18:59, Joseph Manojlovich wrote:
> At question is this modal dialog box, which pops up upon the launch of
> any KOffice application:
> http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~josephm/koffice-dialog.png

I'd also like to have that dialog box optional. 

I once read a good article about the Americans liking wizards (and in real 
world, people coming up to other persons offering help), while Europeans 
don't like wizards that much, but want to initiate the action themself (in 
the real world, Europeans won't approach other offering help and don't like 
being approached, but are just as helpful if you ask them). I actually 
simplified the whole thing here, but what I want to say is basically that 
some people like to be offered all available options, while others just feel 
annoyed by being offered (too) much help (and thus delaying the real work, 
even if it's just one click/return too much. I agree with you, that this one 
step just distracts me from *my* line of thought. As usual, other feel 
differen.). 

I usually know what I want to do, and I don't want the computer to ask me if I 
want to do that, or that, or that, or that. However, I'm sure many people 
like that dialog, so by default I think it should be turned on, but I'd like 
the option to turn it off. That was one of the first things I did with corel 
draw and with WinZip (on the very few occasions I'm using Windows, of course 
;-) )

Reinhold
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