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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: General KDE Usability
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-07-13 22:40:36
Message-ID: 40F464E4.6040404 () acm ! org
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Ra1n wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>> Ra1n wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, but this don't change the fact that this way to do things is 
>>> common to newbies that tries to use konqueror(I've tried with some 
>>> people I know)
>>> for how much it regards to me, I'll stop trying to use konqueror and 
>>> I'll stick with a real browser like mozilla firefox.
>>> Hoping that one day konqueror will get some real usability improvement
>>
>>
>>
>> Well DUH!
>>
>> As I said, Windows disease must be unlearned to effectively use *NIX.  
>> This is just ONE example of that fact.
>>
>> Removing features is not the way to improve usability -- especially 
>> when they are features that are used by power users.  KDE-3.2.x 
>> already suffers from several such "improvements". :-(
>>
>> KDE is the power user's desktop.  We do not want to turn it into 
>> another GNOME! :-)
> 
> If I want to use effectively  a *NIX I use the CLI and not KDE
> What's wrong with GNOME? they work hard too, to provide a good desktop 
> envrionment exactly like the KDE team, and both works must be respected

The current GNOME approach is to improve usability be simplification (removing 
features).  Perhaps we could compromise by having a set of newbie configuration 
files which could be loaded in place of the standard default ones when a new 
user account was created (by kpersonalizer), then we could have it both ways.

--
JRT
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