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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Kicker bar maiming
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde () carewolf ! com>
Date:       2003-12-21 9:36:28
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On Friday 19 December 2003 08:39, Frans Englich wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> The attached patch removes three buttons on the kicker bar, the konsole
> button, the help center and the kcontrol shortcut, respectively. Here goes
> my rant:
>
> * konsole
> In KDE's targeting audience the CLI is never used, unheard of and
> *definately* not used on a dialy basis as much as konqueror or kmail.
> Considering it is an unknown "feature" the look of an monitor(not to
> mention the old icon!) is associated to other things ala the typical
> situation of users from different social/cultural contexts). Ie, when my
> girlfriend first logged in in KDE she wanted to change "that ugly
> background" and went for the konsole icon - afterall it has to do with my
> screen. I can't definately not blame her for that reasoning - it is
> perfectly logical(but I can indeed blame her for claiming the background is
> ugly, especially considering what she chose..). It confuses the average
> user and wastes screenspace.
>
Konqueror is still not viable as a good file-manager yet. Until then the shell 
is our filemanager. Also I expect our _current_ target audience to either 
know or need to learn about the shell.

I will not comment on your choice in girlfriends ;)

`Allan
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