[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Akademy and Usability
From:       Charles de Miramon <cmiramon () kde-france ! org>
Date:       2004-08-03 11:36:48
Message-ID: 200408031336.49340.cmiramon () kde-france ! org
[Download RAW message or body]

Hello all,
I've unsuscribed from the list for a while (too much work, too little 
time...). Finally, I hope to come to Akademy on my way back from holiday for 
the first week-end but I'll have to leave on Monday to go back to work. I was 
wondering if usability people there would like to have an first short reunion 
during the week-end where I could participate before the big one organized by 
Aaron ?

I've watched reunion of geeks where people tend to flock by group of 2 or 3 
people around a computer showing each other proudly their code or their vim 
skill. It is quality time spent but their is no much debate or brainstorming. 
I think it would be useful to push some kind of discipline. 

Maybe each of us can talk for 5 minutes about the different topics (KControl, 
Kicker, more funtionalities in KWin, Usability process, etc.) and a secretary 
can take notes and then the secretary could post a rewritten document so that 
people who could not come can add their thoughts. Having a formal way to 
divide the talking is a good way to help people not totally fluent in English 
no to stay mumb.

A good goal for our group would be to have some kind of documents for each of 
the different component we want to improve for KDE4 and give some Usability 
team recommendations. These documents should not be be too precise or 
over-engineered. We must leave some room to developer who will do the coding.

I'll tell in advance my two hobby borses I would like to push during Akademy

- I like Benoît's Kcontrol3 and I don't like the different rip-off of 
WindowsXP control panel (Benjamin's KControl4, Frans' KControl4, Pupeno's 
KControl). For me the goal of the revamped KControl should not be something 
that "look" simple but an application where you can easily understand what is 
going to happen if I push this button, contextual help and explanations 
should be an important part of the interface. 

- I think that we should expand the concept of theming more (Kicker, KMenu, 
etc.). If I could chose in KPersonalizer not only Plastik/Keramik/Redmond but 
themes corresponding to our different type of users : Newbie/ Girlfriend / 
Web Developer/Knowledge worker/Programmer/Sysadmin/ etc. and obtain 
configurations ranging from something like Mandrake Discovery to Debian KDE 
with all the bells and whistles, we will elegantly solve a recurrent 
interrogation about the over complexity of KDE.

Cheers,
Charles
--- 
cmiramon@kde-france.org
http://www.kde-france.org
_______________________________________________
kde-usability mailing list
kde-usability@kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]