From koffice-devel Fri Nov 08 11:37:59 2002 From: Sven Lueppken Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 11:37:59 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Fwd: Re: KOffice's usability X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=103675548524211 Hi all! I was talking to Aaron J. Seigo about KOffice's usability yesterday because= I=20 believe that there many improvements have to be made. He already made a few= =20 proposals which seem quite appropiate to me but I hope we even get more stu= ff=20 done in the next days / weeks. I put usability on top of my personal TODO= =20 list as I would really like to see a cleaned up KOffice 1.3 :) (Yes, that=20 also means I volunteer to work together with the usability team ;) So, what do you think? =2D--------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: KOffice's usability Date: Thursday 07 November 2002 12:24 =46rom: "Aaron J. Seigo" To: Sven Lueppken =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Sven... On Thursday 07 November 2002 06:42, you wrote: > I'm one of the KOffice developers and quite concerned about it's usabilit= y. yes... functionaly it is becoming quite complete but the usability is trailing behind that... > How easy to use is it? What can be done better? I would really like to i think it is easy enough to use for most, but could be made much better. some key candidates for simplification include: o the initial document dialog o the configuration windows o the menu and toolbar layouts the initial document dialog that appears when first starting up a koffice a= pp has several problems IMHO.. some things that would help it: o make "Open a recent document" another tab on "Create document from template" tab widget o get rid of "Start with an empty document" and just have that as one of t= he templates that would leave just the tab widget and the option to open an existing document. the action to open an existing document might simply be a push button that opens a file dialog and then opens that file as soon as it is selected in the file dialog. this button should be hidden when selecting Fi= le =2D -> New. this would get rid of all of the radio buttons and make the whole thing that much simpler without sacrificing any features whatsoever. one might also think about making this initial dialog a part of the main window or even to hide the main application window while this dialog is shown. it seems (and is reasonable that) having a modal dialog pop up in front of the "actual window" frustrates many users as they feel less in control and like the initial document window is preventing them from getting at the main application window (which it is). there are several such items in koffice that could benefit from a similar working-over. perhaps the besit first step is to identify as many of these = as possible that are shared between all koffice apps and work through those one at a time. once that is done then looking at specific applications would be= a good idea. what do you think? take care .... =2D -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9yk131rcusafx20MRAj2dAKCa6mT5S47nwc5A9crgePbiCTrN5QCePEY6 LBZya4mIVSl9TZlyfSdCeEw=3D =3Dv8oi =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- =2D------------------------------------------------------ Regards, =2D-=20 s v e n l =FC p p k e n KDE Developer, sven@kde.org Get KOffice 1.2 from http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2/ _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel