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[Frans Englich]

On Saturday 03 September 2005 12:16, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> * Olaf Jan Schmidt <ojschmidt at kde.org> [Sep 02. 2005 20:39]:
> > Hi Dirk!
> >
> > Kannst Du eine kde-ev-hci Mailingliste aufsetzen?
> > Danke!
>
> I already asked for a kde-hci list to be made, wouldn't that be better
> (since not all of the people in this list will be eV members)?

I haven't participated in KDE's usability development for long and knows 
absolutely nothing about it, but one thought that strikes is that there 
currently exists many lists related to HCI/usability: kde-usability, 
kde-usability-devel, kde-guidelines(at least).

One could engage in complex discussions about the differences between HCI & 
"usability" and what not, but perhaps an advantage of reusing, say, 
kde-usability-devel, could be that there's less lists to subscribe on, and 
that one doesn't fragment the forums. For example, kde-usability-devel 
already got created because kde-usability was inadequate, and is very low 
traffic and have the right people already subscribed(perhaps, or more or 
less).

Of course, the idea of the hci-list does not come from the blue sky and I 
don't know it. Above comment was just a loose thought on the general approach 
of creating (yet another) list for exciting projects.


Cheers,

		Frans