From kde-usability Tue Jun 08 19:44:18 2004 From: "Jamethiel Knorth" Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:44:18 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Easier Searching in KDE Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=108672471531571 >From: Jonathan Gardner >Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:31:12 -0700 > >On Tuesday 08 June 2004 01:02 am, Dik Takken wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Jamethiel Knorth wrote: > > > I'm going to post this to core-devel when 3.3 is released. A >discussion > > > about optimizing the search backend really belongs there. Some of the > > > people on there probably will have some really solid ideas about it. > > > > Yes I agree, but not before the desired user experience has been defined > > by us on this list. Once we have reach an agreement, we should prepare a > > proposal. The people on the kde-core-devel list will need to discuss the > > technical details of the proposal, discuss the priority of the featre > > and decide if it's worth spending the required manpower on it. Most > > kde-usability people won't be able to participate in that discussion > > (which is good) so we must make sure that the usability part of the > > discussion has been finished here first. > > > > Indeed, we should not discuss technical details like indexing, caching, > > and so on. That's not our field. > > > >I would propose that in thinking about usability, you forget everything >about the technical limitations. There are enough bright fellows who know >more about how systems actually work that will be able to take components >and generate the results you want. In the end, it is all magic and hand >waving as far as the usability folks should be concerned. > >I'd like to see two proposals: One for KDE 3000 (to be released 3 days from >never) and the other for KDE 4. We should design and implement KDE 4 as a >stepping stone to KDE 3000, adding useful, possible features, but keeping >an eye on where we really want to be in the year 3000. That's a good idea. I do have a tendency to try to make things I think can work, but I don't always know what's possible. Before sending those to core devel (since I'm planning to wait until 3.3 is out, there's a good chunk of time), I'll try to make some designs I would be willing to serve on God's dinner plate. That'll be a fun weekend! _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability