On Friday 07 August 2009 17:44:36 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> The best way undoubtedly is for those that care to start helping
write
> documentation - and UserBase makes that easy to do (any help needed in
> starting new sections etc., please ask me). If you do that, developers
> will be so grateful that they'll fall over themselves to answer your
> questions so that you can expand the help.
It's unfortunate that this has veered off into a discussion of the docs.
If you glance at my original post, that point I was trying to make was
that the configuration dialogue is poorly designed. If it were
well-designed, the docs would be much less important.
UI design these days is based on scientific research. I often don't agree with
the end-result, but all that proves is that I don't fit the common mold.
However I take your point about offering to help. You did that once
before and I never acted on it. If you point me in the right direction
I'll see what I can do.
Choose an application that you like using, tell me which one, and I'll talk
with you off-list (to save bandwidth for others) about how to get started.
[...]
> > That also works with Dolphin and is a valid alternative. However it
> > doesn't really answer the question. More to the point, a user who sees
> > the notification pop-up and clicks on the icon will still have to click
> > twice more to get to the file browser, which I conjecture to be by far
> > the most common case. That's just bad design.
>
> How do you know that's the common case? It is for you, and it is for me,
> but for others an image viewer or media player may be their most common
> need.
Perhaps, but we'll never know. That's why configurability is important.
Then talk about it on Brainstorm.
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BTW
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Device
+Manager?content=106051 shows an interesting alternative to the device
notifier, but it doesn't seem to be available for Fedora (the Install
New Widgets dialogue can't find it.)
The Fedora Install New Widgets dialogue only seems to find a very few, when
there are dozens available. I've no idea why. Perhaps we should file a bug
report on this. I've thought of doing so more than once, but always been too
busy at that point and then forgot until next time.
Anne
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