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OpenUsability and KDE: Cooperating on KPDF
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.
Ich Bindawalross (London) - GNAA (NYSE: GNAA) President timecop released a statement today regarding the immediate Internet release of MacOS X for the x86 architecture, available on many BitTorrent networks. After making the statement, timecop yielded the stage to a second speaker at the press conference, Apple Computer co-Founder and CEO, Steve "Rim" Jobs, now fully recovered from his recent gender reassignment surgery to field questions from attending press members.
"We here at Apple Computerth [sic] have decided on a slightly different path for the upcoming version of the MacOS X," Jobs states before bursting out into high pitched giggles. "We have replaced our overpriced and bloated software with an efficient and easy-to-use interface. I would like to take this opportunity to announce a merger larger than a Zimbabwe nigger cock: GNAA and Apple Computer."
Returning to the podium, timecop began speaking again, while Steve Jobs submitted to orally pleasuring his ten inch nigger cock. "Dedicated faggots have been loyally purchasing the homosexual software and hardware abomination that is Macintosh computers. Apple has been striving to provide software customers with the most flambouyantly homosexual combination available. However, in recent days, this hasn't been enough.
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"As Slashdot users, many of you might have been exposed to the pirated release, and information pertaining to it. We would like to thank Rob "CmdrCocko" Malda for running the first article, leading to the release of information about our upcoming merger. We would also like to extend our gratitude to thepiratebay.org and XiSO for helping us spread the release over the 'underground scene.' We thank you, the IRC channels who put it on their hacked .edu xdcc bots and fserves who hosted it on your dialup connections.
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oh shiz open sores now the fun has begun. i proudly support opensource project such as windows 98 and atari 6800.
I'm a partially-trained usability engineer and I went to the Openusability site the first time it was mentioned here. I was hoping I could help out. But as soon as I looked at the forums I was shocked: By default, the messages are displayed in reverse-chronological order (last message first). There is a reason nobody else does this: it's unusable.
So I thought about it a little and decided to pass on. Yes, I could have tried to point out the problem and get it fixed. But I think if the site starts out with such a fundamental flaw, it has quite an uphill battle to go through. Still, I hope the actual participants have better sense.
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So, how's life in JAP ? Still working for that freaking company and watching nekkid chicks through hidden webcams that some asshole installed somewhere ? Oh and tell Scorn that he still is a fucking faggot for having banned me. Oh and stop using GNOME, it's fucking retarded.
I thought it was that OSX limits you to do about three things, and all of them poorly.
Waste of time. KPDF is sad tinkering at the edges and highly representative off the ass backwards, selfish Linux mind set which will eventually bury it forever.
Don't waste time on KPDF, in fact don't waste time anymore on hopeless lost bloatware like KDE and GNOME which are both on a road to nowhere. Start tackling the real issues which make Linux a miserable near-unusable experience for about 90% of people and you will win a lot of praise.
Sorry guys, but if Linux was actually a business and I was the boss I would have dumped KDE, GNOME, X Windows, and the install-by-sourcecode nonsense a long time ago or at least provided a decent working alternative to it.
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'.
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