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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KARE
From:       Eric Ellsworth <whalesuit () softhome ! net>
Date:       2003-01-30 21:42:08
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Hi Imry,
	Welcome to the list, and kudos on getting KDE installed in your corporation.  
If I understand what you're looking for correctly, you're in luck - it's 
called Kpersonalizer.  The second screen refers to processor power.  It can 
also be run again after the setup if the user finds his machine slow.

As long as you're here, though...
	This would be a nice opportunity to do a little usability testing by 
observing users reactions to KDE as they begin using it.  Would you be 
interested in doing that?  What OS are these users coming from?  What Linux 
distribution will you be using?

There was such a survey floating around on this list, right?

Cheers,

EE


On Thursday 30 January 2003 01:25 pm, Imre, Nagy Jr. wrote:
> Just an idea (sorry if it is too lame)
>
> KARE (Care - in KDEish style)
>
> I am a network manager who is responsible for keeping the 170 workstations
> running. In these months we are moving to KDE 3.1 as the official desktop
> system of our firm. Unfortunately we have some (about 40 lower-end PCs
> (PI-200, 64MB)  workstations that is not so fast if all eye-candies and
> effects are turned on.
>
> So, we definelty would make use a small application that runs before the
> whole KDE system starts up, check the available memory and processor speed,
> and if it finds out, that there are not too much resources, it disables all
> not-needed eye-candies, animations and effects, does not matter what the
> user set up before. So, finally, the desktop gets fast also on a lower-end
> machine.
>
> Of course, I do not mean this application to be useful for single user home
> machines, but is very very usuable in an inhomogenic hardware environment
> with multiple users and it would really helt people like me to maintain a
> good shaped, fast workstation farm. I might even think, that this could be
> Kiosk's part.
>
> This application might be named Kare (Care in KDEish style) since it cares
> about the fast responsivesness and resources of the workstations. Of
> course, it is just an ide.
>
> Any ideas or comments?

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