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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: K icon
From:       William Leese <yatsu () wanadoo ! nl>
Date:       2003-08-24 8:19:36
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Neil Stevens wrote:

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>On Sunday August 24, 2003 12:55, William Leese wrote:
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>>Neil Stevens wrote:
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>>>Adding hack after hack to the K Menu won't fix design weaknesses.
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>>How is adding a background to the kmenu icon a hack?
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>It doesn't address the issue of putting in a little corner of the desktop 
>the thing users will need to use first.
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>The problem isn't that the K Menu looks wrong, it's that the K Menu is in 
>the last place the user willl look.
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>That's not to say the K Menu doesn't belong in the corner by default.  It 
>does, because it's optimized for speed.  Once you know KDE, then the K 
>Menu does its job of giving quick access well.  But a new user doesn't 
>need quick access.  He needs a walkthrough of the system.
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Agree with your last point: new users need a walkthrough of the system, 
but I'd like to add "..regardless of how inituitive the interface may 
be". So we need documentation or a tutorial for new users.

- wvl

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