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Re: Usability
by JeroenV on Monday 10/May/2004, @11:58

<I>1) Config menues: add consistently (through the apps) an "advanced options" button, and just leave a few relevant options for the "regular user". As an example, take the config dialog in Konqueror, there are so many options that it is overwhelming. It takes me quite a bit of time to navigate through them and I am a nerd ;-)</I>

Many configurable options aren't a real problem IMO, as long as the options that matter are in the first few screens. AND the options are linked to that program only.

E.g., what I would like to see is a distinction between the Konqueror File Manager configuration and the Konqueror Webbrowser configuration. The Control Center allready has this distinction, it would be better IMO if the app itself had this too.

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Re: Usability
by Ian Whiting on Tuesday 11/May/2004, @14:43

If KDE is going to be taken seriously by the majority of business users then things do need to be simplified for the average user, and that does mean hideing advanced options that only IT professionals use. This could mean that there are specific tools for configuring advanced options (other than a text editor on the configuration files).

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Re: Usability
by Datschge on Wednesday 12/May/2004, @17:20

If business users take IT seriously enough to employ a decent IT staff they are already today able to take advantage of KDE's high configurability which allows administrators to easily adapt KDE to specific use cases by fine tuning and locking down parts or all of KDE's user interface. The keywords are KXMLGUI and KIOSK. (And that all is completely independent of whatever KDE itself decides to do for simplifying the defaults for average users, something which shouldn't be of any concern to any serious IT staff anyway.)

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