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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: default panel set up - website
From:       Matt Bonyak <dingodonkey () stny ! rr ! com>
Date:       2002-07-25 21:56:57
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On Thursday 25 July 2002 12:41 pm, Uno Engborg wrote:
> The hide button isn't really needed as most users will turn on auto hide
> anyway.

I highly doubt this.  Maybe many "power users," including yourself, do hide 
the bar, but Joe Schmoe KDE newbie (for whom the default is most intended, 
correct?) is less inclined to auto-hide, even if he did know how.  It really 
is a minority of users that prefer to enable this feature.  But either way, 
the hide buttons are a useful sacrifice that more users probably use than 
auto-hide.

> But auto hide can't be on by default as new users might not even find
> the panel
> that way.

Correct.  Given that, isn't your previous point moot?  I mean, if defaultly, 
you don't want to use the auto-hide, but you also don't want hide buttons 
because you assume people will enable auto-hide...  Isn't this contradictory?
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