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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [Kaffeine-devel] Kaffeine usability report
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-08-21 16:26:32
Message-ID: 200608211027.41990.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Monday 21 August 2006 7:55, Iñaki wrote:
> > 3.6
> > The numbers are there to indicate which numkey to hit to start the
> > corresponding action. e.g. hit keypad "1" to start playlist playback.
>
> Again the only KDE apps that shows numbers in the main buttons. I'm sure
> that no common user will press a key instead of clicking with the mouse.

except users that prefer the keyboard or that must use the keyboard. i see no 
harm in this feature and there are benefits to it. the reason for numbers is 
that the buttons are dynamic which makes shortcut collisions more difficult 
to avoid; we do have the accel assigner now in kdelibs which may actually 
help here. but keeping the accels visible is important.

> > 3.11
> > Well, that's true, "these commands are likely to be rarely used", but
> > there is no advantage not having it in menu.
>
> There is an advantaje, the menu looks tidier.

this isn't a complete assessment. one can have tidy menus on a program that 
does nothing (making is useless), or menus that are insanely complex making 
the application too difficult to navigate to be comfortable (a problem often 
cited with konqueror). one can also have menus somewhere in between. not sure 
that kaffeine suffers here.

> > 3.17
> > Wrong. Xine DOES play png and jpg.
>
> Yes, and Firefox always appear as "image" viewer, but is it for? Is a
> multimedia app an appropiate app for viewing images? and more important:
> will the users open kaffeine to see their photos?
> Yes, xine has the power of showing images, but obviously is not the
> appropiate app for it, and there is always a better app for that (Gwenview,
> Digikam, Kuickshow...).

agreed. kaffeine does suffer from "doing too much"

> > 3.20
> > "Unable to select multiple tracks in Audio Encoding without
> > Control/Shift-key" This is very common way for multi-selection. If a user
> > don't know that, he surely doesn't know what is a computer ...
>
> I agree with you.

actually, this still isn't common knowledge among computer users.

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