On Tuesday 22 November 2011 11:50:14 pm Calvin Morrison wrote:
> On 22/11/2011, Kristopher John Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 November 2011 11:36:50 pm Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >> > Hey sort of on/off topic..
> >> >
> >> > Today I was discussing the trinity project with some fellows who share
> >> > a lab at Drexel.
> >> >
> >> > One thing two of them mentioned about KDE3.5 that while you can
> >> > configure everything, it often is hard to find where the setting is.
> >> >
> >> > They said they liked kde4 not for the widgets, just because it was
> >> > easy to customize.
> >> >
> >> > Just a thought
> >> >
> >> > Calvin
> >> >
> >>
> >> I had the exact opposite reaction--I found KDE4 extremely difficult to
> >> customize, unless they were just referring to adding plasoids and changing
> >> the wallpaper. ;-)
> >
> > I could never figure out the whole plasmoid thing. The whole description of
> > plasmoid and the difference between widgets and actual desktop elements got
> > me all confused ;-)
> >
> >
>
> I was just presenting that fact. They are users, and so we need to
> listen to them. They are not biased either way and are interested in
> trinity, but that was an interesting point I thought they made.
>
> I think that maybe we need to review our kcontrol mechanism and make
> sure all configuration settings are in appropriate spots.
>
> Eg, should keyboard shortcuts be under Regional & Accessibility
> Eg. should our compositor have it's own module? it's quite hard to
> find under "Window Behavior"
>
> I think we can at least make some things more intuitive.
>
> Calvin Morrison
I just thought I'd move this to it's own thread. I think it's good to think about for R14, and more obvious when not used to hijack another thread ;-)
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Kristopher Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/
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