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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: How to join the KDE Usability Team?
From:       "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-12-29 19:06:05
Message-ID: 880dece00812291106r53364deftbb4b008e89bc1179 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/12/29 Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste@kde.org>:
> these can be the same people, but often they are separate people.
>
> One, as a developer who is interested in actively improving the usability of
> their/any application by making code changes, commiting them and releasing
> them.
>
> Two, as a design who is interested in (not exactly passively, but they are not
> a first party) improving the usability of any application by making
> recommendations of changes to developers.
>

How about actual users of the software?

I use KDE for about 12 hours a day, and I have installed KDE-based
Linux distros (Fedora and Kubuntu) for 20-30 others over the course of
about three years. I have heard all sorts of complaints and have filed
tens of bugs in KDE from both my users and my own experience. While
the Plasma, Konqueror/Dolphin, Kate, Konsole, Digikam, KDE-PIM, and
other component's bugs are usually fixed within a few weeks to months,
the usability bugs (enhancements and HIG violations) are almost always
closed very quickly with a simple "that does not interest us".

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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