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KDE's usability the best
by Olof on Friday 12/Sep/2003, @00:52

The usability in KDE is _at least_ as good as in Gnome. You just have to make the sufficient settings. In this way, KDE is more flexible, has more options, and with the correct settings _will_ become more usable than Gnome.

This is a fact because usability can only be measured in a given work context, thus the possibility to adopt to that context is essential. Adopting is possible when flexibility is high. Simply removing features decreases flexibility and does not help increase usability.

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Re: KDE's usability the best
by Olof on Friday 12/Sep/2003, @00:56

I'll reply to myself here. Just to add an important point.

Usability _does not_ come right out of the box. It doesn't matter if big software companies wants us to believe so. It just doesn't work that way.

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Re: KDE's usability the best
by Jeff Johnson on Friday 12/Sep/2003, @05:10

That depends on the user. Many users do not even try to change the default configuration. For them easy-to-use and simple defaults are most important point, and they are also Gnome's main target group.

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Re: KDE's usability the best
by Alex on Friday 12/Sep/2003, @06:01

What is the "default configuration"?

Is it what the gnome team has in their packages? No.
Is it what a distribution includes? No.
Is it what comes installed, set and configured as part of a product and/or system? Yes.

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Re: KDE's usability the best
by Jeff Johnson on Friday 12/Sep/2003, @13:37

Obviously depends on where you get your system from. But yes, for home users and all people who try out KDE for the first time, either the KDE or the distributions defaults are essential for their first impression of KDE. And if they don't bother to reconfigure, also for their last.

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Re: KDE's usability the best
by Olof on Saturday 13/Sep/2003, @00:20

> either the KDE or the distributions defaults are essential

You assume that the one who sets up a system at a workplace actually uses the defaults that these groups have "chosen". For home desktop users this will only be true if they buy a distribution separately and installs it. I argue, that in other cases, the ability to change (=flexibility) will decide how near you can come to the optimal usability for a user.

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