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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KPersonalizer usability discussion
From:       Carsten Wolff <AirWulf666 () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-08-30 0:19:50
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On Friday 30 August 2002 00:31, Eric Ellsworth wrote:
> Hmmm - the fact that the changes are made as you go might be what I
> think is confusing.  It also makes it somewhat less responsive, as the
> whole screen often disappears and has to be redrawn when you click next.
>  Would it be terribly difficult to have it wait and apply all the
> changes at the end?

No, it wouldn't be difficult to change and I thought about it myself 
several times, but I think the behavior is better as is for the following 
reason.
In the last few weeks I did several KDE installs for so-far-windows-users. 
They all kept going on through the kpersonalizer-pages, only because they 
saw the changes directly and were able to go back and forth, until the 
setting was of their liking. That's because they don't have any idea of 
many of the options. They don't know what a focus-policy could be, or how 
icon-highlighting might look like.
The redrawing isn't very nice, I know, but I think, it's the right tradeoff 
to make.

Greetings, Carsten.

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