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
