From koffice-devel  Sun Sep 24 17:24:00 2006
From: Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:24:00 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Having more than one other widget than templates in the starting
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On Sunday 24 September 2006 17:39, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Sunday 24 September 2006 17:10, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > What about auto-filling the resolution and colormodel data in the alrea=
dy
> > existing widget based on the image data thats in the clipboard?
>
> allready done, but obviously it's not intuitive enought for users and it
> sill needs to extra step : "copy as new layer" and "remove the blank laye=
r"
> from the start.

Then fix that to make 'paste' just paste the image from the clipboard to th=
e=20
current layer.

> Publishing the usuability survey that have lead to the current dialog cou=
ld
> really help us, koffice developers, to understant what other users (beside
> us) expect of it and how they interract with it, and it might prove a very
> learning experience for us.

I think you misunderstand what we did.
There was not a 'survey' as such. This blog explains it a bit better;
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2105

To design an application you need someone that can actually design software=
=20
(not a skill people just coming from school master, for example).
Likewise you need someone that knows interaction design to design a dialog.

I'm not sure what you want to see; there have been 5 people working closely=
=20
together over a couple of months to create something. I'm sure you can=20
understand that there is no way for me to produce any documents so you can=
=20
suddenly understand why usability people and interaction designers came up=
=20
with the solution as it is now.

I will repeat what I think Krita should work on.
Having lots of templates based on screen resolutions and nothing else is no=
t=20
really helpful. A template can be so much more then just entering some=20
variables in the one startup dialog there is.
Krita should have less technical categories. Users are not interrested in R=
GB=20
verses CMYK, or transparent vs. white background.
Users choose best based on goals instead of tasks.  So, provide a template=
=20
for "Printed ad" and a template that can be used to place a familiy picture=
=20
in. Stuff like that means a lot more to actual users.
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Thomas Zander

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