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Re: I don't like her
by lippel on Thursday 31/Aug/2006, @04:19

> I think she should be more open to comunity requests and KDE should pay a
> litle less atention to "usability experts" and focus on what users want!

Yeah, what do users want? And who are the users? bugs.kde.org/kde-apps.org are not representative for the whole user base.

If KDE would add an option for every possible feature requested on bugs.kde.org or kde-apps.org, we would end up with approximately 30 configure pages per application and 100 for kcontrol.
Nobody would be able to find any option in there.
Not to mention that it would cause bugs and annoying behaviour in weird combinations of options developers haven't thought about.

There is a range of sane strategies between "remove all options" and "add all features someone somewhere suggested". The latter isn't a sane one for sure.

To comment one of your arguments from kde-apps.org:

> takes the mouse control out of the user for a nanosec(how many clicks can u
> make in a nano secs ?! )

More important, the mouse cursor is somewhere else than it was before, which is confiusing and leads to unpredictable behaviour. Also, an accidental click would lead to errors. And why don't you just user the return key?

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Re: I don't like her
by R on Thursday 31/Aug/2006, @06:47

> More important, the mouse cursor is somewhere else than it was before,
> which is confiusing and leads to unpredictable behaviour. Also, an
> accidental click would lead to errors. And why don't you just user the
> return key?

I concur. It also about control. Throwing the pointer automatically around the screen causes the user to lose the feeling of control of the system thus decreasing the feeling of trust and easiness of use.

If somebody really, really, really wants this option, I think it should be done as a separate add-on.

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