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Re: Model KWrite after GEdit, keep Kate for geeks
by Morty on Tuesday 22/Apr/2008, @14:45
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>esoteric coding style options and configurations on non-techy users of KWrite
>for whom those options are completely irrelevant. Because obviously your
>programming fluff won't bother them,
Exactly, those options you for some irrational reason hate so much, are in the singel digit percentage of menu options. So yes, they are so few they will not bother the non-techy users. But it's features that have valid user cases and are indeed used by many existing users. And caused by of some kind of personal, and not founded in reality usability theory, you want to remove features used by many existing users. Removing a tool used by many to solve a non-existing problem, since those users don't matter anyway.
>You can very easily make Kate work
So rather than having a simple tool best fitted to the task, you need to preform extra actions to make a more complex tool less so. Thats irony.
>Geekish programming options are tiresome, confusing, and intimidating for non-programmers
>and get in the way of their doing simple stuff like spell checking, copy/pasting and printing.
This is not even a user case, only theoretical musings. And its even less valid, since it's not applicable to the reality of this case. Since KWrites programming options are so few compared to the non geekish options, they will not get in the way or intimidate the non-programmers doing simple stuff. Of the non-programming users more than 99.99% will simply just ignore the few options they don't have a need for or don't understand. |
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