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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: An aid for usability development
From:       Segedunum <segedunum () actuaria ! co ! uk>
Date:       2004-07-25 21:12:17
Message-ID: 200407252212.38383.segedunum () actuaria ! co ! uk
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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:04:56, Frans Englich wrote:
> It is long time since I wrote it and I think of many parts which could be 
> written in more strategic ways -- if you have "smoothed" it, I think that is 
> a good idea. However, I don't think we should hold back writing declarative 
> and firmly putting the foot down --

Yes certainly, but the foot is still firmly down. I just wanted to emphasise 
why this whole usability thing was important, and just what people are using 
KDE for these days. Usability is going to be a big part of that continued 
success, and I wanted to drive that home - especially with the wording about 
power and regular users. At the moment I just don't think enough people can 
see that.

> I can't see the differences because it's not a diff, which wouldn't make any 
> sense anyway since the text files are not word wrapped. I really need to
> mark up the documents before we continue -- otherwise your work will easily
> get wasted.  

Yes certainly. It isn't exactly definitive (just something to stick up for 
some review), and there are probably still some mistakes in it, but iterative 
improvement and all that. Marking up the documents will certainly help a 
great deal.

> What is holding back then? It's the darn website framework -- integrating 
> KDE's php code with generated docbook is a mess. If anyone have any 
> suggestions I am interested:

I'm not yet familiar enough with Docbook, but I should be fairly soon. I'll 
probably look into using Quanta as a nice Docbook editor :).

Have you though of a usability documents, or even development, section in CVS? 
That might help quite a bit as well.

Cheers,

David
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