From kde-usability Sat Aug 04 17:06:29 2001 From: Jono Bacon Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 17:06:29 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: My opinions about KDE-menu usability X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=99694493320677 These are some really great ideas. We just need to formulate them into a report. Would one of you guys like to be the Kicker report maintainer? As soon as we have a report ready we can get it sent to the developers who can look at what elements they wish to code. Cheers, Jono Quoting Jim Conner : > I was told by the creator/maintainer of Redmond Linux that they were > going to > do just that in a future build/version of Redmond Linux. I don't know > if > this is a choice on install, or an on-the-fly type of choice. He didn't > > elaborate. I think it would be a nice on-the-fly type of change. A > user > could try each or 'graduate' from task-related to standard as time goes > on. > I think the target of Redmond Linux is more towards the nontechnical > user. > IMHO, since different distros target different users, I'd allow the > distros > to package kde to default to one or the other when adding in a new user. > I'm > sure that if necessary, we could communicate with the maintainer of > Redmond > Linux about this so we don't re-invent the wheel. > > Jim > > On Saturday August 04, 2001 6:02 am, Claes Andersson wrote: > > Redmond Linux KMenu was interesting to see. I am quite sure a menu > like > > that is easier for new Linux/KDE users. The question is of course who > is > > the target audience for usability - nontechnical or technical users? > > Perhaps it would be a good idea to be able to switch between a simple > menu > > and a complete one. ICQ has something similar for example, even if it > in my > > opinion is much to cluttered in its advanced mode. > > > > Claes > > > > -- > > 7:42am up 11 days, 8:16, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Running Caldera eD2.4 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > kde-usability mailing list > kde-usability@master.kde.org > http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability > -- Jono Bacon - [vmlinuz] -- jono@kde.org Qt/KDE Developer ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: mail.wlv.ac.uk _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability