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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [PATCH]: menu button in window deco
From:       Matt Bonyak <dingodonkey () stny ! rr ! com>
Date:       2002-07-20 3:04:45
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On Friday 19 July 2002 10:36 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 19 July 2002 07:13, Matt Bonyak wrote:
> > Heh, now you tell me...  This is a problem, alright!  A friend using
> > Windows 2000 says that it still operates that way -- and, he says that
> > the reasoning is that before there was an "X" button, that was how you
> > closed a window.  I guess I was too young in those days to remember :)
[snip]
> please, i'd love to hear how staying consistent with windows in this case
> makes KDE better. or how diverging from it in this case makes it worse.
> this is an obvious case of what is good usability versus doing something
> like windows.

This "feature" is ridiculous, I'm honestly surprised it hasn't been brought up 
until now.  I have no justification for this, nor have I ever.  I'd be 
surprised and _very_ intrigued to hear from anybody that does.

[snip]
> [1] i know that isn't what you were saying Matt, i'm just a little peeved
> at the "windows way or the highway!" sentiment on this list ATM.

I understand fully; I'm all in favour of the "windows way" -- when it is also 
the best way.  But if there is a better way of doing something, as there 
often is, there's no reason that KDE shouldn't do it the better way -- that's 
what the Windows configuration in kpersonaliser is for, and that's what makes 
KDE so great.  A bad feature, copied for any reason, remains a bad feature, 
and an unnecessary flaw in KDE.


 - dingo
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