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. <snip> > > 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 -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090807/d565096f/attachment.bin
