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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: RMB - once again
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-08-09 1:41:41
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On Friday 08 August 2003 03:24, Matthew Bonyak wrote:
> On Friday, Aug 8, 2003, at 16:33 America/New_York, William Leese wrote:
> > I'm wondering if most users really use preview. In what way does
> > 'Preview'
> > differ from opening the file in an application? All it does is open
> > the file
> > in a 'lite' application.
>
> Every time I introduce somebody to KDE, I devote a great deal of time
> to explaining the difference between Open and Preview.  It's time for
> Preview to go.  Preview annoys most users more than anything.

throwing the baby out with the bath water, IMHO

previews are highly useful for many, and are primarily an issue due to no 
feedback that it's a preview and how to get to edit mode. there are solutions 
that "just" need to be coded... and they will be, one day, i promise...

> I think Actions (call it anything else, it doesn't really matter) is an
> unnecessary submenu.  Open, Open With.., and that's all we need.  I do

are you referring to putting applications in the action menu being bad (in 
which case i agree), or that the action menu in general is useless?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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