OfB Open Choice Awards 2002: KDE 3.0 Best Desktop

Submitted by wbastian on Sun, 2002/07/28 - 2:46am
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KDE Success Story

Open for Business has held its first annual

OfB Open Choice Awards
 and KDE 3.0 has won in the category
Best Desktop Environment:
"If the KDE Project had been content to stick with KDE 2.x, this may very
well have been GNOME's year to shine. Unfortunately for the younger project, KDE
moved forward at such a rapid pace this year, some people thought the project's

Sebastien Biot: KDE Usability - First Steps

Submitted by numanee on Thu, 2002/07/25 - 2:04pm
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Desktop Environment

Sebastian Biot looks at KDE Usability in the first of a series of studies. "While some participants noted that KDE looked different from Windows, none seemed bothered by the differences and the look-and-feel of KDE. Users identified all the elements of the interface without any trouble including KDE's Konqueror and KMail icons. Most users seemed to understand the K menu's presence and function intuitively and they used it much more than I had anticipated.

Dot Series: Creating Konqueror Service Menus

Submitted by aseigo on Tue, 2002/07/23 - 11:05pm
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User

The ability to select mimetype-specific actions from Konqueror's context menu is an oft-requested feature. The pleasant surprise is that this is already possible. The even more pleasant surprise is that you don't need to be a software developer to do it. This article, the fourth in the dot tutorial series, details step-by-step how to quickly and easily add new actions to Konqueror's context menu.

OSNews: Bringing KDE Closer to Joe User's Desktop

Submitted by jlanbo on Fri, 2002/07/12 - 10:40pm
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Desktop Environment

User Interface designer Eugenia Loli-Queru has written a thoughtful and well-illustrated article for OSNews where she discusses which parts of KDE are good and which ones could use some polishing. "What is a good User Interface? Well, in order to answer that, we will have to take into account that different people like different shapes, colors and functionality.