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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Kicker Defaults
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-08-20 20:57:26
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On Tuesday 20 August 2002 02:20, Eric Ellsworth wrote:
> > Agreed as well.  I would remove that, along with the individual KOffice
> > programs, and put either a KOffice Menu (which I'm weary on), or KOffice
> > Workspace.  It's good to have access to these on the panel, as much as
> > we're trying to cut back on space.
>
> I vote for 	a) the Koffice Workspace ($KDEDIR/bin/koshell) or
> 		b) a wizard
>
> koshell looks like a decent candidate candidate, but it could use some
> cleaning up before making it a default kicker entry.
>
> How about we make koshell App of the Week for the next couple weeks?

good idea, but it is worth noting that KOffice is in a hard feature and msg 
freeze for the upcoming release. any work that we do will not be in the 
upcoming release.

> Finally, might I suggest that the tutorial be written in HTML.  This way we
> can:
> 	+ present users with Konqueror/KFM from the outset.
> 	+ Write it quickly and post it to the web for easy review by the usability
> list
> 	+ With luck, still use DCOP and other scripting fanciness to script some
> actions in KDE

i'd suggest something w/a bit more flexibility than plain HTML to accomodate 
things such as actions (e.g. dcop calls, mouse controls, etc). there is no 
reason we can't display text, graphics, etc... using a KHTML part in a custom 
app though. this would also get around the security sandbox issue.

i think presenting the new user with konqueror itself might be a bit much when 
we are looking to educate them from step 0.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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