From kde-usability  Sun Aug 10 20:03:04 2003
From: William Leese <yatsu () wanadoo ! nl>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:03:04 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Recents apps in KDE menu confusing for users.
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Simon Edwards wrote:

>On Sunday 10 August 2003 21:00, William Leese wrote:
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>>Simon Edwards wrote:
>>The names do not matter. Afterall, why would a normal user have to 
>>browse anything other than their home directory? 
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>errr... because floppys, cdroms, shared drives (think duel boot), and network 
>drives generally don't appear in thier home directory.
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Indeed, they appear on the desktop (not by default on debian though? 
Other distro's do seem to do this.). 'Devices' in Konqueror also 
displays them.

>>You'll likely find that  
>>every reason a user might want to has to do with a faulty configuration, 
>>something that shouldn't be dealt with by the user anyway.. 
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>Well, it is the current state of affairs at the moment with Linux distros.
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So we make this huge shift of namespaces as a workaround? I'm sure quite 
a few people have nice idea's on how to do some kind of translation in 
order to not brake any compatibility, but first make sure the user 
should be bothered about all this in the first place.

>>in the ideal   
>>world.
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>I was refering to this world unfortunately. The one where my GF still has 
>trouble finding /mnt/data/.
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Add the mount to the desktop.

>(For some more OT action, read this:
>http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/51/menu.htm
>and think about how it applies to the current KControl and the 'flat' kcontrol 
>design that was recently discussed here. (Hint:Flat indexes appear to be 30% 
>faster in this report! ;-) enjoy kids ))
>
Subscribed already :) I'll start reading through everything tomorrow. 
Hopefully the usability report previously advertised on this list will 
be released in english tomorrow, as stated on their website :)

- wvl

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