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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Putting my money where my mouth is
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2003-02-22 12:44:43
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On Friday February 21, 2003 11:49, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> indeed... next month i want to start working on a new interface to
> kcontrol... something along the lines of what pupeno wrote about,
> actually... i want to try out the following strategy:
>
>  o get rid of the tree view (have it optionally available for those
> addicted to trees, but off by default)

If you do this, can we *please* restore KControl to the K menu by default?  
Without the tree, people doing user support lose the only remaining method 
of directing people to KControl modules.

>  o replace it with the help sidebar, except make it pretty (probably
> similar in style to the konqueror/kmail/kcontrol intro screens) and add 
> a "related items" area, that contains links to related control panels.
> e.g. if you are in configuring the window docorations this might contain
> links to window behaviour, colour schemes and widget styles

A search won't cut it on a translated desktop.  People can look at the tree 
and find the right thing, but with a search they can't *guess* what 
translation was used.

> yes, a lot of the dialogs really need reworks as they are showing their
> age as the number of options have piled up over the years...

Yeah, they're showing *maturity* as over the years useful options have been 
added.  All these years of bugs.kde.org pay off.  Don't toss that aside.
- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insidious that a
state bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not allow
them in any public sphere." -- Thurgood Marshall
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