From kde-usability Sat Jul 27 04:36:04 2002 From: Irwin K Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 04:36:04 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: When KDE should be like Windows X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=102774474926253 On Friday 26 July 2002 09:39 pm, Christopher Young wrote: > I don't want a Windows clone either, I just think that KDE could benefi= t by > mimicking pieces of Windows. It helps users get into KDE and doing wor= k > faster.... I do see your point about 6 months down the line, but > realistically I just think that KDE is THE project is drawing users ove= r > from Windows, and it would be a shame to lose the users' attention. I think I should jump in here and make a nice blanket statement that prob= ably=20 applies very nicely in discussions like these. We should never ever say, "KDE should be more like Windows" or "KDE shoul= d be=20 more like ____". If we ever start a discussion, we should say, "KDE should use feature ___= =20 because I (or joe-scientist, or joe-user, or conductor of joe-usability=20 study) find it usable. An example is in where ". What Aaron's saying is, "We shouldn't copy Windows just to be like Window= s." =20 What Chris is saying is, "Just because it's WIndows doesn't mean we shoul= d=20 copy it." But when you all get down to it they're saying the same thing. Remember that innovation is good. But good ideas (whether innovative or = not)=20 are even better. --=20 -- Arcana (Irwin) _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability