idea: kpersonalizer to ask for user 'type'

[Janne Karhunen]

Adriaan de Groot <adridg at cs.kun.nl> wrote: 
 
> > 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 ). 
>  
> Hey, I asked you first: what exact settings does "Home User" imply? 
 
Didn't I reply? I would go with offering him rapid access 
to WWW, multimedia, games, instant messaging and email. 
There are other more cabable guys/gals here that are far 
better than me figuring out what else would be hip.  
 
 
 
> correct - if you are going to link a whole collection of settings with some 
> nebulous term like "home user" you must make sure that users expect the same 
> link. 
 
Sure, but whats the other solution? Have a generic babble 
that doesn't really fit anyone? Focus on just one of the 
target groups like Ximian has done? All power users that 
i'm aware of are really pissed about that, as some of  
them would actually like to use the product (XD2). 
 
That said, I have no perfect answers or 100% fool proof 
market research, my friend. As a matter of fact, I don't  
think anyone has. I'm just trying to figure out how this  
could be made better just as you are.  
 
Personally i can say that of all the items in the K menu, 
I probably use maximum of 10%. How about you? 
 
 
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// Janne