From kde-usability  Fri Oct 21 18:46:28 2005
From: Zak Jensen <coolguyzak () gmail ! com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:46:28 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: another idea
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On 10/21/05, Peppe <cerebro84@vodafone.it> wrote:
> Another idea is: a switch. Applications should start with
> their default configuration, but after an amount of time
> (e.g. 1 week) the application informs the user that it's
> gonna hide some buttons he didn't use and show some new
> buttons that were menus items he often used. Then, a new
> button should appear into the menu bar (or somewhere else,
> but not in a disturbing place): a switch to pass between
> the "user mode", with the most used features, and "default
> mode", with developer choices.

It would be better for the application to tell the user how they can
customize their application, or (even better) provide a button or link
that would perform the cuztomization for them... This is one of the
many features I wanted to put into the "new ktips"... My senior
project is coming up, and I was going to implement a proof-of-concept
replacement for ktips on KDE 3.5.

I don't have the time to maintain it at present, though. So, it would
be up to someone else to port and use it... given that it goes up.
I've mentioned it every time the ktips discussion occurs... As far as
the members of this lost go, they are more interested in the
monitoring framework than the ktips improvement... which I find odd...
but that's just me.

> El Miércoles 19 Octubre 2005 23:44, Peppe escribió:
> > El Miércoles 19 Octubre 2005 11:25, Lasse Liehu escribió:
> > > Olivier Goffart kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika
> > > keskiviikko 19 lokakuu 2005
> > >
> > >
> > > What about Cleaned Up (or Simple), Windows and KDE?
> > >
> > > Difference with Cleaned Up and Beginner is that Cleaned
> > > Up contains options that most people use and so on. It
> > > can contain some options that beginners don't use, but
> > > other people (average user, who have a little more
> > > expertise than a beginner) use.
> > >
> > > I think the default should be Cleaned Up, but you can
> > > switch that if you want.
> > >
> > > Though I think that this like user expertise levels
> > > aren't very good thing if there is some other way to
> > > clean up UI to UI that everyone can use powerly,
> > > without user expertise levels.
> >
> > Well, this is what I really was thinking about.... mine
> > one was just an example, I didn't want to force a profile
> > based on expertise, but just to consider the concept of
> > "profile"...
> >
> > Another thing I was thinking about is to ask the user
> > what he is gonna use KDE for: a little questionnaire done
> > just once that asks the user his main tasks. So
> > applications could configure themselves to show the right
> > buttons and keep the other functions into their menus or
> > somewhere else.
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