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On February 27, 2007, Florian Graessle wrote:
> Hi Wladimir,
>
> Wladimir Schaefer wrote On 27.02.2007 16:38 Uhr:
> > I have Idea about how to make great KDE configurability:)
> > passable/acceptable for all user categories, so, it is nothing new, I
> > suggest to make different levels like it is done in XINE, for example 3.
> > [...]
> > So, what are You think about it?
>
> See http://usability.kde.org/activity/recent/userlevels.php
>
> CONCLUSION:
> "User levels do not achieve the intended purpose because users first
> have to figure out their expertise. They never get the opportunity to
> learn more advanced features. In addition, users of different classes
> will end up dealing with "different" user interfaces which leads to
> confusion from support lists."

and ..... expertise is not consistent across all applications/tasks so you =
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up with some apps that are too simplistic and/or some that are too complex,=
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or else you instrument every application individually and the user is now=20
confronted with a bunch of options again of a new sort.

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Aaron J. Seigo
humru othro a kohnu se
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=46ull time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)

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