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Subject:    Usability report for Korganizer -feedback from author
From:       S A Jarrett-Sprague <sjarrettsprague () waitrose ! com>
Date:       2001-08-21 20:57:19
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Hi

Had some feedback from the Cornelius the author of Korganizer. Can you help 
provide me some feedback on the user interface of the program if you are 
currently using it?

If you aren't using it but are using something else instead (evolution?) can 
you let me know why you are currently not using korganizer ?


Regards
Stephen

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Subject: Re: Usability report for Korganizer
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:48:08 +0200
From: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
To: S A Jarrett-Sprague <sjarrettsprague@waitrose.com>

Hi Stephen,

On Friday 17 August 2001 21:58, S A Jarrett-Sprague wrote:
> I have just written a usability report for Korganizer 2.1 for KDE 2.1.2 and
> have volunteered to maintain the Korganizer usability report. Please find
> attached report.

Ah great, this is something which could turn out to be very useful.

> The approach I took with writing this report was to take a look at the
> program from a new users perspective and how they would guess the program
> should work primarily by just looking at it. I took MS Outlook to be the
> baseline that people would compare to.

Did you make any studies with other people using KOrganizer, or are these
just your personal experiences? I would be very interested in reports about
people actually using KOrganizer and where the most common problems with the
user interface are.

> I think the things that I have commented on our pretty minor stuff that  if
> changed might help polish the program. Indeed korgainzer in KDE 2.2 may be
> much different allready. Can't wait to see! Anyway, I would appreciate
> feedback, and any suggestions as how you would like the usability project
> to help you.

Some comments about the isssues you raise in the report:

#1-1: 3-pane monthview/todo view: For the month view it's useful to have in
addition the todo list, for the todo list is useful to have in addition the
small calendar. I'm not sure what the best solution is, but you are right,
that this isn't optimal right now. With the other two points I agree. Will
fix that, when I find time.

#1-2: This is a bug in kdeui. This should be fixed.

#1-3: This has been fixed in Korganizer 2.2

#1-4: You are right. We are addressing this problem right now, with a new
alarm daemon architecture.

Regards,
Cornelius

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

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Regards
Stephen
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