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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: For whom is KDE designing for?
From:       Holger Macht <holger () homac ! de>
Date:       2007-05-25 10:55:44
Message-ID: 20070525105544.GB30526 () homac ! suse ! de
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On Fri 25. May - 10:49:00, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2007 10:39:25 Holger Macht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > simple question, complicated answer. For whom is KDE designing for?
> > What's the target group? Maybe someone can help me answering it...
> >
> > I think that's the central question when designing graphical user
> > interfaces. It heavily depends on the point of view. For simplicity, I'm
> > categorizing possible target people into five major groups. Please don't
> > argue about the descriptions, you should get the idea...
> >
> >   1. Users. The most simplest users you might think of. Browsing,
> >      writing, playing, chatting, that's it! The experienced GNOME user,
> >      if you like to call it that way ;-)
> >
> >   2. Advanced _users_. Having an idea of what "configuration" is and are
> >      willing to change something about their graphical user experience to
> >      fit their personal needs.
> >
> >   3. System administrators. Knowing what a terminal is and how to use a
> >      terminal based editor. Having an idea about what's behind the fancy
> >      graphics.
> >
> >   4. Programmers. Everything has to be so that most productive work can be
> >      done. "The desktop is some kind of IDE"
> >
> >   5. All of the above mentioned, making KDE so heavily configurable that
> >      every distro and every company is able to customize it in such an
> >      drastic way that it fits their own personal target group.
> >
> > I read several FAQs and papers from KDE usability but couldn't find an
> > answer to that question. Is there one?
> 
> Did you read that one:
> http://wiki.openusability.org/guidelines/index.php/Introduction:KDE4_Vision

Yes, that is what I was looking for. So the answer is indeed (5.) ;-)

Regards,
	Holger
 
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