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Re: ONE bad thing/look about KOffice 1.5 beta
by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @22:20

Actually, we have taken a users' survey for this. That is, there has been a professionally done usability study with real people and a real usability experts especially on this area. It turns out that the old template/open/recent dialog was confusing; that the new one was better but needed improvements -- and Thomas Zander and Peter Simonssen made those improvements.

But, as other people have said, you need only one mouse-click to get the blank document of your choice: check Always Use this Template.

Not that I don't expect this feature to lead to much more discussion. It's bound to haunt us forever, even though it is an objective improvement.

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Re: ONE bad thing/look about KOffice 1.5 beta
by superstoned on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @01:41

i don't understand the fuzz, at first sight i already thought it was much better than the previous dialogue. and as ppl (and i'm human too :D) mostly don't like new things, i think that's a strong hint at the great usabillity of this embedded startpage.

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Re: ONE bad thing/look about KOffice 1.5 beta
by fast_rizwaan on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @01:51

I also like this all in one approach, but we need to Label it like "Choose a Document/spreadsheet/Presentation Type to Create".

And we need Evarlodo for the icons, they look *just scaled* could be svg icons used there would look better.

and "use this template" confuses me... It would be better to have simple english (as average joe user can't understand english vocabular above 6th grade ;)

instead of "Template" which is geeky, consider "Document Type" or "Spreadsheet type" or "Presentation Type".

"Always use this Document Type" -> Blank Document... Colorful document... etc.,

The Recent Documents should *not* be part of the "Create Document" List.

The most missing feature in the page is "OK" "Cancel" "Create" buttons. "use this template" doesn't make any sense at least to me.

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Re: ONE bad thing/look about KOffice 1.5 beta
by Luciano on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @07:54

I actually think I like it. It's an improvement over the dialogue in any case, and if a good selection of templates will be provided, it should be a better interface than most.

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Re: ONE bad thing/look about KOffice 1.5 beta
by renox on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @11:38

At first I expected a 'blank document' to be only white page, not to include also templates. The window use both 'blank document' and template to refer to the same thing: this is a bad IMHO, choose one term and use it.
But of course the hard part is selecting the "right" word, I'd say 'Document Type' , Template would be better of course, but not everyone know what a template is..

Another thing which I dislike is that the first column mix opening an existing document and creating a new one. I would split the first column in two parts: a title 'Open existing document' which would contain: 'Recent document' and 'Browse existing document', the second part would have the title 'Create new document with' and contain: 'Document Types' 'Card and label Types' 'Envelope types' 'Custom Types'.

As for the "ugly" scaled icon, I couldn't care less myself..

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Re: ONE bad thing/look about KOffice 1.5 beta
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Thursday 02/Feb/2006, @07:50

As someone who uses KWord several times a day in my normal business flow, I really like the dialog. It allows me to pick the type of document or an older document as soon as I open KWord.

It's different, and people don't like that, but people who really *use* KWord seem to agree it's nice. And if you only fire it up occasionally, it's not a difficult to understand concept, it's just not like the word processor they are used to using.

Keep it! I invoice, send memos, type up letters and print HPA cards every day through the dialog. It is genuinely useful.

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