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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Status of study
From:       Greg Turpin <gregturp () home ! com>
Date:       2001-07-21 15:16:14
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On Saturday 21 July 2001  6:55 am, Stefan Werner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > -- The control center needs to have multiple modes
>
> Not only that, it also need some cleaning. Even for expert users,
> it's still hard to use. For Example, there are three catecories where
> you can change the looks of the Interface, and you still have to
> right-click the title bars to change the windows' apprearance.
>

Agreed.

> > -- When selecting "Logout" from the menu - it should
> > give you an option to not only logout but
> > to shutdown or reboot.  The "Logout" entry
> > on the menu should probably be changed to "Shutdown".
>
> I think "Exit" (with an acoording icon) would be a far better name
> for it, since novice users could be confused by "Logout" or
> "Shutdown". Since some distributions configure an automatic login,
> people might wonder "Logout? Out of what? The internet? I didn't log
> in!". Shutdown is better because IIRC it's the same name in Windows,
> but is still not perfect because if you don't want to shutdown but
> reboot or log out you'd have to click on shutdown, which is not waht
> you want to do. Exit, I think includes all the three terms shutdown,
> logout and reboot, so I'd choose that.
>

Excellent point.  But - what about the icon?  The usability study
was very critical of Gnome's icon for exiting.  I think we have a better
one, but, still....

By the way, they were already planning on implementing reboot/halt
functionality in KDE3 : )


> Bye,
>   Stefan Werner
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