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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: RMB - once again
From:       Sander Devrieze <s.devrieze () pandora ! be>
Date:       2003-08-09 16:45:11
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Op zaterdag 09 augustus 2003 03:41, schreef Aaron J. Seigo:
> 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

All preview applications should have for example a very big button which opens 
a dialog to select an "edit application" from a list. If this is standardised 
through freedesktop.org also non KDE applications can use the KDE dialog for 
this and another environement can have such dialog for KDE apps. *If* this 
feature is there and supported in enough preview applications we could throw 
the baby out with the bath water IMO ;)

> 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...

yep :) See above.

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- -- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.
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