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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Suggestions for usability improvements
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2009-12-10 7:40:16
Message-ID: 200912100840.17244.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi Thomas -- you're with openusability.org, right?

> KOffice 2 is taking very interesting new paths in many aspects from a
> usability professional's point of view. I really like that. But new paths
>  may also contain many pitfalls that need to be avoided. This is why I
>  think KOffice 2 can benefit from usability work a lot.
> For that reason over the next weeks I will be examining the whole KOffice 2
> suite and continually submit proposals for usability improvement to this
>  list for discussion - if you are willing to at least consider them.
> I've started with KWord and already found some things that might improve
> overall usability considerably. I will post each suggestion in a separate
>  mail so that they can be discusses one by one.
> I hope I may be of help to the project.

Sure! One thing a previous attempt at a usability review missed was the overal 
view of interaction in all KOffice applications -- she looked at the various 
applications in isolation instead of as one suite, which missed the point of 
KOffice a bit.


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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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