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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Guidance of the user to all the locations
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-08-15 13:20:20
Message-ID: 200508150720.21216.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Monday 15 August 2005 05:57, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Montag, 15. August 2005 13:05, schrieb Thomas Zander:
> > On Sunday 14 August 2005 20:57, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hey, being in a hurry (oh, still I am) I did not rewrite my mail but marked
> that it as too much rant myself so by this asked everyone to dismiss the
> style and take the pure content. Not explicit enough? ;)

sending a rant is sending a rant. marked or not.

> Sadly I found no design papers with the source code, even now that I tried
> harder. And of course it isn't my concern to burn someone, I hope it's
> noone's on our lists. I wanted to point out usability problems I see, asked
> where to find the rationales for the current solution and made some
> suggestions. 

the problem with this methodology is that you get a decision made and 
discussed at length and then over time N people will try and resurrect the 
discussion somehow feeling justified that because they haven't been brought 
up to speed that everyone else should spend their time fixing that. this 
rarely actually benefits kde but does manage to ensure those involved in 
working on kde have less time to do so.

a "solution" we tried out quite some time ago (2 years or more?) was to 
summarize discussions on this list on the website. this didn't work because:

	o nobody would update the summaries on a regular basis
	o few people would reference the summaries

now, if you'd like to set up a searchable, editable web site (wiki or 
something like that) and commit to keeping it up to date we could try this 
again in the hopes of avoiding repetitious conversation.

in business we have secretaries to record conversation and order notes for 
later use.

> Please stay with the content. I really would appreciate some thoughts how
> all these protocols:/ are supposed to help the user. 

as a response to the program and syadmin friendly but user unfriendly UNIX 
file system hierarchy.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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