<div dir="ltr">Thanks Anne for the results!! :D<br><br>--<br>Armin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Anne Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cannewilson@googlemail.com">cannewilson@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This is the summary of results that I sent to the KDE usability grou:<br>
<br>
No. of replies: 70<br>
<br>
Application questions:<br>
<br>
Classic menu:<br>
22 people use Classic exclusively or almost exclusively. One person uses it<br>
occasionally<br>
<br>
Of dolphin users:<br>
6 people use Favorites and Recently-used about equally.<br>
<br>
31 people use Favorites exclusively or almost exclusively.<br>
1 other uses it frequently, 4 use it occasionally and one never uses it.<br>
<br>
6 people use Recently-used as their main launch point.<br>
3 people use it frequently and 13 use it occasionally. 4 people said they<br>
never use it.<br>
<br>
2 people routinely use kickoff search.<br>
<br>
krunner or alt-F2 is used almost exclusively by 3 people, while 1 person uses<br>
it frequently and 1 person uses it occasionally.<br>
<br>
3 people are running Lanceleot<br>
<br>
1 person uses panel icons + katapult.<br>
<br>
1 person uses cairo.<br>
<br>
1 person uses only desktop icons.<br>
<br>
Personal details:<br>
<br>
Only 22 people were prepared to give personal details. I asked about<br>
occupation, skill level, and also whether they fitted into the age groups<br>
<25, 50-50, 50+ to see whether that was significant in working practices.<br>
<br>
One was a 16-year-old student, who rated his skills around 5/10.<br>
<br>
Of the rest, all but one were in, or retired from, technical occupations, of<br>
which 4 were directly concerned with computing. 10 were in the 25-50 group,<br>
and 11 were 50+, of which 8 were retired.<br>
<br>
The remaining one person listed manual trades as his skills, and has recently<br>
set up his own business.<br>
<br>
Skill Levels:<br>
<br>
Apart from the student, only one person rated his linux skills as low,<br>
although he has high windows skills. One said 'reasonable' and 6<br>
said 'moderate' or 'moderately advanced'. 6 said 'High' and 7 rated their<br>
skills as 'Very high'.<br>
<br>
Comments (in no particular order):<br>
<br>
"It's better than the old menu, but I can't add applications to it."<br>
<br>
"I changed the sort order.... When Name is in English and Description is not,<br>
sort order is absolutely weird"<br>
<br>
" Attractive and convenient, and much easier to use"<br>
<br>
" better organised, but too many mouse clicks"<br>
<br>
"maybe both the most recently used items and the favourites could be shown at<br>
the same time. Maybe with the area of the menu split into halves, either<br>
horizontally or vertically. However, the space is already quite limited, so<br>
it might not be the best solution."<br>
<br>
"Better than icons on panel"<br>
<br>
"browsing is too slow"<br>
<br>
"too many clicks and too slow"<br>
<br>
"First, I tuned off the hover behaviour on the tabs because that has to be<br>
about the stupidest thing I've ever encountered. "<br>
<br>
"I definitely prefer kickoff to Classic"<br>
<br>
"kickoff is too slow and cumbersome"<br>
<br>
"I don't like the naming by description, rather than package names"<br>
<br>
"kickoff search is great"<br>
<br>
"I use Recently-used mainly for documents"<br>
<br>
"I clean the recently-used document list regularly" (two people said this)<br>
<br>
"I wish that it would resemble the way Gnome's default<br>
Applications-Placces-System menu works. That way I could easier navigate to<br>
all the other tabs besides favorites" (I didn't understand this one, but<br>
maybe it means something to you.)<br>
<br>
"It also needs to be more easily re-sizable because it takes up far too much<br>
horizontal screen real estate needlessly."<br>
<br>
"The right way for kicker menus to function is the same way app menus should<br>
function, with menu actions taking place only upon a mouse click, never as a<br>
result of mouse hover or mere mouse move. If you don't believe it, try<br>
watching a typical over-40 PC newbie, preferably with a touch or worse of<br>
arthritis in fingers and/or wrists, try to accomplish anything whatsoever<br>
with a mouse. It's pitiful."<br>
*********<br>
<br>
As I said earlier, there are no promises that any wishes will be realised. It<br>
was clear too that 'one man's meat is another man's poison'.<br>
<br>
The team thank all who took part. You'll be pleased to hear that some of the<br>
concerns have already been met - re-sizability was one point mentioned.<br>
<br>
Thanks again<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Anne<br>
</font><br>--<br>
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