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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: "Home" name confusing
From:       Frans Englich <englich () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-10-13 12:56:33
Message-ID: 200610131639.38575.englich () kde ! org
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On Thursday 12 October 2006 17:10, Nathan Eckenrode wrote:
> 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.

Slightly related:

http://englich.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/kdes-uris/


Cheers,

		Frans


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