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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Direction of KDE default?
From:       Uno Engborg <uno () webworks ! se>
Date:       2002-07-28 3:26:19
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Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

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>On Saturday 27 July 2002 03:50, Uno Engborg wrote:
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>>Why open with KConfig, wouldn't it be simpler with a simple perl script
>>that directly
>>fed the info into the database.
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>i'm assuming that we won't get the config files ourselves. getting people to 
>simply run a program that generates a text file they can email us means the 
>process would be more accessable.
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>it also means that the database won't be available to them as it will be 
>remote.
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>and no, i don't think opening up the database for random public insertion of 
>data is a good idea since for the data to be worth anything there needs to be 
>QA over it: which means we oversee the actual data entry.
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>>If we collect data from users, why not let other users make use of that
>>information?
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>whoa there, cap'n nemo! let's not turn a couple days of hacking to provide the 
>usability project with some useful data into a several months long devel 
>project with all sorts of implications!
>
Yes, it would take a while to hack together I certainly admit that.
But it could give us a lot of useful information provided we somhow
can get the users to trust the system, and this is probably a harder
task than the actual coding.

Our problem is that we need to get in touch with a broad spectrum of 
users, with
different backgrounds and by targeting users at their first KDE login we 
could
expect to reach a wide spectrum of users.


Regards
Uno Engborg





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