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Re: [News] KDE Develops Innovative Launcher/Kicker, Improves Usability

Erik Funkenbusch wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:01:50 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Kickoff Start Menu Research - Sneak Preview
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| OpenSUSE 10.2 will have a redesigned KDE start menu created by the KDE
>>| and usability team at SUSE, after doing usability testing with other
>>| start menus. We now have a working prototype, code-named 'Kickoff'
>>| (started during world soccer championship, obviously), which is
>>| currently being tested with real users in the SUSE usability lab.
>> `----
>> 
>>         http://home.kde.org/~binner/kickoff/sneak_preview.html
>> 
>> Nice Flash clip demonstrating it.
> 
> Now THAT is cool.  It looks like Novell is finally starting to make some
> decent usability improvements.  It's about time.
> 
> The only problem I see with it is that, while very powerful, and probably
> easy to use for power users, it would likely confuse novices...

It would likely confuse bacteria like DFS, billwg or you
But then, not everyone is so limited as those wintendo users
-- 
Only two things are infinite,
 the Universe and Stupidity.
And I'm not quite sure about the former.
        - Albert Einstein


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