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Re: [opensuse-ux] welcome
- From: Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 17:58:16 +0200
- Message-id: <20070502155816.GS12025@xxxxxxx>
On May 02, 07 16:10:30 +0200, Martin Schmidkunz wrote:
> All our project will be available on http://en.opensuse.org/UX
>
> Let`s think big!
This is tempting. :-)
Okay, you got me hooked.
Our graphical user interfaces GNOME and KDE have been growing in
functionality for quite a while.
I still consider myself KDE-Beginner as I spend very little time in
learning the GUI or checking out new features.
I have established a screen layout of a few xterms and a browser,
which has been working fine for my daily tasks for several years now.
So, from a beginner perspective, I often experience difficulties
operating the GUI itself. One typical problem is locating the correct
settings dialog for the change I intend.
Example: I know I can switch focus from window to window using Alt-Tab.
What is the supposed route a beginner should take to locate the
corresponding menue or dialog screen?
In general, I experience lack of controllability with our GUIs.
Many presumably simple tasks are quite complex (3 different dialogs
interact for Alt-Tab) and often involve nondeterminisitic search methods
(like asking an expert, or google).
Is there a systematic approach on how to survive growing complexity?
Aren't there some good concepts or paradigms out there that could be applied?
The good old desktop metaphor no longer really works. I never had a desk
with so many knobs and switches. Operating a Desktop more and more resembles
an airplane cockpit. With airplanes, complexity is okay, because pilots are
well trained experts for their user environment. Computer users are not.
cheers,
Jw.
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> All our project will be available on http://en.opensuse.org/UX
>
> Let`s think big!
This is tempting. :-)
Okay, you got me hooked.
Our graphical user interfaces GNOME and KDE have been growing in
functionality for quite a while.
I still consider myself KDE-Beginner as I spend very little time in
learning the GUI or checking out new features.
I have established a screen layout of a few xterms and a browser,
which has been working fine for my daily tasks for several years now.
So, from a beginner perspective, I often experience difficulties
operating the GUI itself. One typical problem is locating the correct
settings dialog for the change I intend.
Example: I know I can switch focus from window to window using Alt-Tab.
What is the supposed route a beginner should take to locate the
corresponding menue or dialog screen?
In general, I experience lack of controllability with our GUIs.
Many presumably simple tasks are quite complex (3 different dialogs
interact for Alt-Tab) and often involve nondeterminisitic search methods
(like asking an expert, or google).
Is there a systematic approach on how to survive growing complexity?
Aren't there some good concepts or paradigms out there that could be applied?
The good old desktop metaphor no longer really works. I never had a desk
with so many knobs and switches. Operating a Desktop more and more resembles
an airplane cockpit. With airplanes, complexity is okay, because pilots are
well trained experts for their user environment. Computer users are not.
cheers,
Jw.
--
o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_
<V> | jw@xxxxxxx wide open suse_/ _---|____________\/
\ | 0911 74053-508 (tm)__/ (____/ /\
(/) | __________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
"Oral agreements are worth about as much as the paper they are written on."
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