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by Gerd on Friday 03/Mar/2006, @05:00

I think it will be important to link usability and quality discussions. There are lot of quality issues which lead to inconsistencies or bad naming/labels.

From a usability perspective I would suggest to keep the number of applications low. E.g. I see no reason to keep the control center as a seperate application in "KDE standard". We can access the control center plugins just via Konqueror. And we could provide html like navigation which can be changed much easier. Usability problems of the web are usually a non-issue.

Some dublication of shipped applications like KDE editors is unnessary and clutters KDE.

Popup screens are bad in general. The Firefox search function shows how it is done more user convinient.

Error messages can and shall be improved, e.g for devices not plugged in.

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