On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 19:03 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 07 August 2009 17:44:36 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
[...]
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.
As a general rule yes, but what scientific research indicates that
information the user needs to configure something should be hidden from
him?
[...]
> > 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.
I have. See
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=113&t=65036&p=86942#p86942. Also
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=43570&p=86914#p86914 for a
somewhat related point.
>
> 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.
If the dialogue is meant to find all widgets on the
kde-look.org site,
then it does seem to be a bug. I've reported it as
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203006
poc