OpenUsability and KDE: Cooperating on KPDF

Posted by timothy on Monday June 20, 2005 @11:28AM from the ensmoothening dept.

sultanoslack writes "More from the world of usability in KDE -- there's an interview up where Albert Astals Cid, the KPDF maintainer, and Florian Grässle, a usability engineer from OpenUsability on working together to make KPDF more usable and some of the challenges in working together in a developer / usability engineer team. We've been seeing more from the OpenUsability folks lately, and they'll also be present doing a talk and staffing a booth this week at LinuxTag, Europe's largest Open Source conference." This interview-with-screenshots provides a neat look at the interaction of usability concerns and software development.

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Re:Good Thing(TM) by Tony+Hoyle · 2005-06-20 12:53 · Score: 1, Troll

I hope they do it properly and *not* take any notice of GNOME.. thinks like being unable to cancel a lot of actions because the cancel button was deemed to be 'too complex' by the usability expert... hiding all the useful options so you can't configure the damned thing any more, making every single app have its own font/style settings instead of a global one.. not to mention putting the OK/Cancel buttons the wrong way around for the sole reason that it's 'different to microsoft'.