{ "success": true, "comment": "\x3cdiv class=\"comment comment-published odd\"\x3e\n\n  \x3cdiv class=\"clear-block\"\x3e\n      \x3cspan class=\"submitted\"\x3eFri, 2009/10/23 - 9:35am — \x3ca href=\"/users/rcachou\" title=\"View user profile.\"\x3ercachou\x3c/a\x3e\x3c/span\x3e\n  \n  \n  \x3cdiv class=\"comment-score-div\"\x3e\n      \x3cspan class=\"comment-score-label\"\x3eScore: \x3c/span\x3e\x3cspan class=\"comment-score\"\x3e-5\x3c/span\x3e\n    \x3c/div\x3e\n\n  \x3cdiv class=\"comment-voting-controls\"\x3e\n    \x3cspan class=\"comment-promote\"\x3e\x3c/span\x3e \x3cspan class=\"comment-bury\"\x3e\x3c/span\x3e\n  \x3c/div\x3e\n\n  \n    \x3ch3\x3eThank you for the laugh!\x3c/h3\x3e\n\n    \x3cdiv class=\"content\"\x3e\n      Was that article meant to be published on April 1st? Because, frankly, associating KDE and usability must be some king of joke, right ?\r\n\r\nLet\'s just consider the examples one by one.\r\nHow can you consider that bothering the user with a pop-up menu \x3ci\x3eevery single time\x3c/i\x3e he drags a file is a positive thing ? You\'re just increasing the time needed to accomplish a simple action. Other file managers don\'t ask. They try to guess what the user wants to do and 9 times out of ten they\'re right. When the guess is not right, on Windows you can drag the file with a right-click to have the same pop-up menu as in Dolphin. And on a Mac, you can use Cmd+ drag to always move the file instead of letting the computer guess. Now, that\'s usability: the computer does the boring work and the user can just go on with what he was doing.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe same goes for the toolbar configuration dialog. The way it is presented to the user, it\'s painfully obvious that the developer sees the toolbar as a list of buttons and separators. The problem is that, as a user, I don\'t. I just see buttons side by side. With this dialog, I have to choose the buttons I want, apply, see if it\'s ok, change again if it\'s not, apply again... Being able to drag and drop buttons where I want them in the toolbar with a live preview of what the toolbar will look like when I\'m finished is far simpler (and most of the time faster). Of course, it would be more difficult for the developer.\r\n\r\nThis article really illustrates how disconnected from the real-world kde developers are. I have no doubts that things like Nepomuk and Folder view can be useful. But if you cannot get basic things right nobody will put up with your software long enough to care about advanced features. The problem as I see it is that kde developers see everything as binary choices with simple answers instead of considering complex answers to real-worlds problems.          \x3c/div\x3e\n  \x3c/div\x3e\n\n  \x3c/div\x3e\n" }