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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: "Home" name confusing
From:       Nathan Eckenrode <Neckenrode () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-10-12 15:10:40
Message-ID: 200610121110.41665.Neckenrode () gmail ! com
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On Thursday 12 October 2006 10:29, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> Whats wrong with the home button?  Why do there have to be so many
> different ways to get to home?  I havnt heard any justification for any
> other these other than "they exist and so we use them"
>
I am confused here - please feel free to point me towards some deeper reading 
of philosophy, but I thought that if you have some other options for 
accessing tools, then your ability to use that tool increases. IOW, these 
different methods of going home, gives the user a degree of freedom in how to 
complete the same task. It seems that the HOME icon button is the only method 
which is most prominently the default.

I think that the home:// kio is most interesting when using konqueror as a 
file manager and there is the display of kios in the sidebar. Sort of like 
the way Finder works on OS X. What I am seeing is a lot of opportunities to 
combine features or feels of the various OSsen in a manner that is very 
individual, that is if the User dares to make such changes. I believe I read 
somewhere that the majority of users do not bother making any customizations 
to their environments. 
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 02:23, David Roberts wrote:
> > > Does the user have to type a strange character in Windows to get him
> > > documents? of course not.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is just me, but I rarely actually type "/home/david"
> > or "~" into the location bar since there's always a home icon that will
> > take me there. Anyway, I don't see how a Windows user could type
> > _anything_ into the location bar seeing as it was disabled by default in
> > XP (which i think was a terrible idea).
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