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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KDE improvement suggestions
From:       ra1n <pk20it () yahoo ! it>
Date:       2005-02-25 19:41:09
Message-ID: 421F8D74.6080301 () yahoo ! it
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Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 25 February 2005 01:36, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> 
>>>	how often do users end up outside of their person data directories in
>>>konq?
>>
>>Very often. 
> 
> 
> hourly? daily? weekly? monthly?
> 
> i'd be surprised if it was more than weekly and wouldn't be surprised if it 
> was monthly. this is actually a useful study to do: where do people travel in 
> konqi. it would be relatively easy to set up a little test harness that would 
> collect all file:/ URLs accessed and create a summary of how often each 
> unique path was visited; then it would be a matter of finding people willing 
> to be guinee pigged and have the results of a month or two of usage sent to 
> someone for anonymization and collation into a uniform data set for analysis.
> 
> i don't think we should hide the filesystem entirely. i think that's generally 
> pretty bogus and puts way too much emphasis on the local filesystem being 
> important anyways. but i am thinking about what our default file management 
> view should look like. it should be optimized for the most common usage, the 
> usage that 95% of our users perform 95% of the time. of course it can't get 
> in the way of the other 5%s either, but that doesn't prevent us from 
> optimizing effectively.
I agree with you that the standard unix filesystem shouldn't be 
completely hidden, but masqueraded, still looking at macosx in finder we 
can see the directory hierarchy related to macos, which is different 
from the darwin one (the standard unix hierarchy)
but in our world (mainly linux and bsd) this isn't really possible, 
because we cannot add another hierarchy on top of the standard one, so 
there are mainly 2 possibilities:
add it :-D
translate the standard unix hierarchy into something "common human 
readable" showing only what the user really needs (?)
Other disks/partitions are not an issue, using hal and dbus we got 
somthing similar to windows and macos.
Also we could make the possibility for the user to access the whole 
filesystem with higher privileges, using su or sudo......btw why in kde 
is used su (kdesu) instead of sudo?
MacOs for example uses sudo for higher privileges operations.
Cheers

Luca
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