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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: General KDE Usability
From:       Ra1n <pk20it () yahoo ! it>
Date:       2004-07-14 9:47:04
Message-ID: 40F50118.4030602 () yahoo ! it
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James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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.
Why not improve the way konqueror could be customized (there are a lot 
of hints in this thread) start with simple profiles and let users add 
features, if a lot of users complains about a feature missing add this 
feature by default
Luca
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