[ANNOUNCE] kde-usability-devel

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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Hello Everyone...

Exciting times are upon us with the release of 3.2 and the future work on 3.3 
and 4.0... To get the ball rolling, here's an announcement of some new 
developments in KDE Usability that have been "in the works" since 
Kastle ..... 

Thanks go out to Thomas Zander (who co-drafted the announcement), Jan Muehlig,  
Jutta Horstmann and Eva Brucherseifer for helping make this happen!

Enjoy!


                            KDE Usability Process Strengthened 
            (Corporate Partners To Aid In Making KDE Easier To Use) 
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As the leading Open Source desktop, many from the private and public sectors 
have expressed interest in KDE and are currently using it on a daily basis. A 
message consistently received from those users has been that KDE's usability  
could be better. While the need for greater usability is not unique to KDE, 
what is unique is our ability to directly and positively affect the usability 
processes in KDE via the same Open Source methods that have been at the core 
of its success. 
 
KDE is delighted to have received invitations from corporate users to leverage 
the expertise of their own usability teams to help improve our software. 
In order to take advantage of these generous offers, the current usability 
processes in KDE were reviewed so as to discover how best to marry these 
new opportunities with the KDE project in general. 
 
To facilitate these efforts a new moderated email list has been set up: 
kde-usability-devel at kde.org. Subscription to the list is open and the list 
will be publicly archived. The list will be moderated to keep the 
signal-to-noise ratio as high as possible. 
 
The primary goal of this new email list will be to find, promote and implement 
methods to integrate ongoing usability efforts with existing KDE design 
methodologies. KDE developers will be encouraged and given the tools to 
include usability as a primary concern at the earliest phases of application 
development. 
 
To provide additional support for these efforts, a new website is being 
developed that will become the incubator for a set of revamped and 
extended KDE UI Guidelines and house industry research papers, studies and 
findings in order to allow greater communication and cooperation between 
academic, commercial and Open Source usability efforts.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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