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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: Regarding KOffice 2.0 goals - feel of the startup screen
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-08-01 15:55:40
Message-ID: 200608011755.41283.zander () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 1 August 2006 17:36, Yanis Kekatos wrote:
> One other thing: the label 'use this template' that _creates_ the doc
> using the active template is a bad choice IMHO. The verb 'use' in HCI
> systems is used to apply a property to an object.
> Computer users have 'connected' the action of creating an oject (doc)
> with the word New (or Create).

I don't agree;  the 'creation' of the doc is just an implementation 
detail, irrelevant to the user.

Its more when I go to get my room painted; and the contractor comes with a 
list of colors.  I then pick one of those colors with a term:
"Please use this color".

-- 
Thomas Zander

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