idea: kpersonalizer to ask for user 'type'

[Janne Karhunen]

Adriaan de Groot <adridg at cs.kun.nl> wrote: 
 
> > Lets assume KPersonalizer would first greet you with: 
> > 
> > Getting to know you. Are you a 
> > x Home User 
> > x Office User 
> > x Power User 
> > 
> > You're saying you couldn't find yourself from this? 
>  
> I'll click "home user". Now you tell me exactly what that means for my 
> desktop settings, and why.  
 
You haven't noticed that these groups actually do have different 
needs? Really? My bet would be that home user is mainly interested 
in WWW, multimedia, instant messaging, and email ( simple kmail ). 
Office user might value instant access to office applications, PIM  
and WWW. I doubt he/she would be interested in seeing hordes of 
small utilities and/or dozen different text editors. Power user  
then again *will* probably prefer konsole over everything, with a  
high probability that utilities and development tools would be 
valued. 
 
As for the complete market research, no I can not give you that, 
but you already knew that. I'm only trying to work this out with 
common sense. 
 
 
> Note that I'm not saying it is impossible to do this, or that it's  
> fundamentally a bad idea. I do claim that for this to be a usability  
> _improvement_, you need to be sure that your categorization matches what  
> people want.  
 
Thats exactly what I was after. Actually, the work that Ximian 
has done with XD2 is rather good on this respect. Problem with 
that being, they only focus on the corporate office user, and  
leave out the rest. KDE is uber-customizable. It has the  
potential to work this out right. 
 
 
--  
// Janne