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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] kmail's disappearing uitilities and menu items?
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-05-17 19:51:44
Message-ID: 200705172151.47077 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Thursday 17 May 2007 07:51, Bill Anderson wrote:
> On May 16, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 02:54, Bill Anderson wrote:
> > One of the principles of usability is not to repeat seldomly used
> > functionality everywhere. Only often used functionality is added to
> > the
> > context menus to keep them relatively small. Obviously, the best
> > solution would be configurable context menus so that power users
> > could tweak them to their liking. Maybe sometime in the future this
> > will happen.
>
> That would be nice.
>
> in the meantime how about making it an option in the "new folder"
> dialog? That is IME the most common time it is used.

I'm sorry, but that won't happen. We explicitly removed everything from 
the "New Folder" dialog that's not needed at the time of creation.


> >> Better yet, have the context menu and leave it at that. It is less
> >> confusing to users to have the two mean two things. If you insist
> >> on both, make them the same menu. That is the least confusing to
> >> new users.
> >
> > Again, according to people in the know, an extremely large number
> > of users never use context menus.
>
> In an email client I've yet to see people not use them.

Take my parents for example.


> > If you are interested in usability please discuss this for example
> > on kde-usability@kde.org. I'm not going to discuss anything about
> > usability with you because I have finally understood (it took
> > several years to accept this) that my opinion is (mostly)
> > irrelevant when it comes to usability. Nowadays, I do strongly
> > believe in the "You are not
> > your user." mantra and accept (often after a brief discussion) the
> > suggestions of our usability experts.
>
> Unfortunately, most "experts" have essentially locked themselves into
> their tower. Of particular problem IMO is the "this works for all
> applications" rule they seem to have developed.

Luckily, our usability folks don't belong to this group.

Regards,
Ingo

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