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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Kicker report
From:       Jim Conner <jconner83 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-08-29 7:07:22
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The usability report(html version) has been redone as a web-based, database 
system.  It will be beta-tested and implemented soon.  I haven't gotten KDE 
2.2 installed so I haven't seen the new Kicker.  I'm the current Kicker 
maintainer and when I get a spare moment(currently working 1.5 jobs) I'll be 
putting out another Kicker report.  It'll probably be in the new format. I'll 
either put this report in the new format or let you know when it's available 
so you can do it.  Currently I don't know who the Kicker lead programmer is 
or exactly how to find that info out.

Jim

On Tuesday August 28, 2001 11:42 am, Kenn Brooks Hamm wrote:
> I have written a usability report on Kicker.  I'm not sure it quite fits
> into what a usability report is expected to be; in particular, many of the
> things I noted are targeted more towards intermediate / advanced users
> rather than beginners, although I think even beginnners might run into
> some of them.  (They're things that bother *me* in Kicker.)  You can get
> it at:
>
> http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~khamm/kde/kicker.html
>
> I also have some comments about the usability report process:
>
> 1) The HTML layout was very annoying to use.  I had to write a perl script
> to make it usable at all.  I realize it is being (or has been, perhaps)
> migrated to a web-based, database-backed system, and all I can say is that
> it's a very good idea :-)
>
> 2) I introduced a "dummy" section of section 0 as an introduction.  I
> think there needs to be some way to put in an introduction.
>
> 3) I was somewhat surprised that no one (of the reports I checked) had
> used screenshots yet.  I used a couple screenshots, scaled down and marked
> up in the Gimp with red text.  I wasn't sure whether to include them
> inline or as references.  In the end I decided on the latter, since they
> are relatively big and would load slowly on a modem.
>
> 4) I numbered my report as "2" because there is already a report #1 on
> Kicker on the usability website.  If this was the wrong thing to do,
> someone please let me know.
>
> I would be very happy if the website accepted my report and posted it
> there, although if you don't want to, please tell me what is wrong so I
> can at least avoid it in future reports.  Also, would anyone who knows who
> the primary *active* Kicker developer(s) is/are please contact me
> privately by email?  I am a programmer and might be interested in
> implementing some of the things I describe Kicker as lacking.
>
> Kenn

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