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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Single vs Multi Window KControl
From:       Charles de Miramon <cmiramon () kde-france ! org>
Date:       2004-08-24 16:37:30
Message-ID: 200408241837.30282.cmiramon () kde-france ! org
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Le samedi 21 Août 2004 13:47, Aaron Seigo a écrit :

Hi,

There is a lot of exhilaration at Akademy and it may explain the tone of 
Aaron's emails about KControl.

I have made several points to Aaron in a corridor and will do it again on this 
mailing list :

- Breaking KCM for small units of configuration options is not a light 
decision to make. There has been hundreds of man hours spent on documenting 
most KCM and translating them. You can't throw all that work in the rubbish 
bin because you have a "Kool" idea.

- There are already keywords associated with KCM. So a search based interface 
and a linking of a KCM to multiple concepts is already possible. This 
thesaurus / search interface can be worked on and improved without the need 
for an über-metadata infrastructure as the one alluded by Scott Wheeler. 

- I have serious doubts about the usability of Aaron's proposition of 
supression of the hierarchical browsing interface not because the actual tree 
is perfect but because the replacements (hyperbolic graph, natural language 
interface, etc.) are not proven usable solutions. But maybe I'm too 
conservative and stupid and will be proven wrong like a new St Thomas.

Personnally, I still think that a lot of gradual improvements could be done 
keeping the actual infrastructure :
- moving the KCM to KConfigXT
- redesign the KControl shell
- Putting more help and explanations near the configuration options
- Adding simple wizards for the most common configuration changes 

and that we are still far from the upper ceiling of what KControl can do...

Cheers,
Charles (back from Akademy)
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cmiramon@kde-france.org
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