From koffice-devel Tue Feb 12 10:09:38 2002 From: David Faure Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:09:38 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Question about your KPresenter's review X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=101350868916732 On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:24, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote: > > > > But since the UI needs to be improved first, as you noted > > > > (same work as the one that was done on KWord, cleaning up menus and > > > > toolbars), it'd be a better idea to do that first, before finishing the > > > > documentation. > > > > > > I have mixed feelings about this. I believe the UI needs to be improved. > > > On the other hand, KPresenter is out there *now*, and it does perform > > > the basic tasks--if the user can only figure out how to do so. Fixing > > > the documentation first will give users incentives to try using > > > KPresenter now. If you fix the program first, you may find that the users > > > who might have been willing to give it a try have already given up on it. > > > > I don't think it's a good idea to write documentation about "a crippled > > UI". > > Did Eric refer to the UI as "crippled"? I don't believe that I did. No, but that doesn't prevent me from doing it ;) > I agree that there would be no reason to write documentation about a > "crippled UI" *if* the developers' intent was to completely redo the > UI--especially if the program were still in alpha test and few potential > users were going to run into the (soon to be discarded) "crippled" version. > > However, it's not my understanding that a complete overhaul of KPresenter is > contemplated (if I'm mistaken, let me know!). KPresenter is out there. It's > available to users, and users are encountering it. Users other than me, Eric > and Rob likely are having problems with it. Some of those problems could be > lessened by improving the documentation. Lessening those problems in that > manner would, I believe, create goodwill for KPresenter/KDE generally by > demonstrating the development team's interest in helping the program work > better for the users. I certainly hope we can fix the UI before the next KOffice release. -- David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david, http://www.konqueror.org KDE 3.0: Konquering the Desktops _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel