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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: RFC: KOffice UI Standard?
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-11-03 20:47:48
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On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, Werner Trobin wrote:
>David Faure wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:15:09PM +0100, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
>> > On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:
>> > >> - KWord and KPresenter differ quite a lot if it comes to
>> > >>   embedding stuff (pictures, objects,...).
>> > >Looks like you missed the thread about what are Tools and what
>> > >aren't, in Reggie's definition.
> 
>...see below!
>
>> >
>> > Looks like you did take my trial to explain what I meant not very serious or at
>> > least it didnīt convince you :-))
>> 
>> Hehe, the latter. It is serious but too developer oriented in my opinion.
>> 
>> When I know I want to insert a part, whether that's going
>> to bring a  'tool' in your sense or not, is for me (dumb user) unimportant.
>> My main action is _insert_.
>> 
>> But you're the author and I'm not part of the UI group, so this is
>> only a dumb user opinion. :)
>
>I think this makes perfect sense, David. The UI (recall: USER interface)
>should
>be - no, it must be - USER centered. I'm very happy about Torben's cool
>canossa
>stuff which hides all the technical stuff (even from the programmer >:) ).
>The user  thinks he uses one killer app. Maybe we should ask some people on
>kde-look(?) (or my grandma) about that tricky situation. IMHO (and if I say
>"humble", I mean *humble*) it's a kind of inserting...
>
>Reggie: Convince me :)

Look up the thread about that in the ML archive. But as I said nowadays because
of the .rc files everybody can easily customize the UI, so we can provide a
GUI-for-Reggie and a GUI-for-Others :-))

And btw, my dad uses KPresenter for making lectures at university and he has no
problems with the tools/insert thingy :-)

-- 
Reggie

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