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Subject: Openusability about Kmail 1.7
From: Marco Gusy <picander78 () yahoo ! it>
Date: 2006-10-11 9:09:56
Message-ID: 200610111109.57011.picander78 () yahoo ! it
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Hi, I subscribed to this list to hear your opinion after the changes made to
kmail after the openusability report:
http://www.openusability.org/reports/get_file.php?group_id=55&repid=43#search=%22kmail%20openusability%20%22mailing%20list%22%22 \
if the link does not work try to search on google "Suggestions KMail 1.7
Folder Properties" with quotes.
I don't agree with what they say in many points:
"2.1 Amount of settings - The first step is to reduce the amount of settings
that a "normal" user is confronted with in the properties dialog. Issues that
either require deep technical insight or that is relevant only in 1% of cases
should be kept "out of sight", but still accessible, or put to another place.
Reducing (required) information to the relevant makes the user feel safer
that he/she can control his /her actions (because he/she only must set what
he/she understands)."
I don't know if this is a new usability trend, but I think that's generally a
bad idea. Usability, in my opinion, is not "try to hide advanced settings",
but "put the features where someone seek them first". So break a "folder
properties" in pieces and scatter them around the U.I. doesn't make sense to
me.
"Mailing List - The handling of mailing lists is a feature that perhaps 1% of
users expect."
I think many kde users are subscribed to at least one mailing list (i use
kmail with 8 mailing lists), why should this nice feature treated as "too
much uncommon to see?". I know it's a feature you should use only once, but
the truth is kmail sometime lose folder settings (it shouldn't), se I have to
use this feature more than I should. Now it's in the "Folder" menu, where
there were only visualization settings (expand, collapse, threaded view, mark
as read etc...), and making it heterogeneous (visualization settings +
properties) -> disorienting.
The expiry proerties, following this phylosophy, should be in folder menu, but
it isn't. I only have in the popup menu when i rightclick on a folder.
"The properties also was changed in quite a substantial way. One aim was to
get rid of the tabs, and thus to reduce the amount of informatin."
It's common to have Properties/Settings in tabbed view, why kmail shouldn't?
I'm not an usability expert, and I tried to get used to this interface, but
after a year ok kmail 1.8 i still browse the menu to find where the
expiry/mailing list settings are, and that's annoying to me. I would like to
know what other kmail users think, so I subscribed to this list trying to
figure out where the ML properties were once again. ;-)
Thanks
Marco
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