kmenu thoughts

[Sebastian Röder]

Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 16:59 schrieb kde-quality-request at kde.org:
> > And remember installing
> > programms is mostly a task for admins and not for users - they don't even
> > care what the admin does.
>
> Please, be realized that not all the KDE users work in an office with a
> system department. Most users maybe "home users".
>
> Find out that Windows is very used because all the people use it at home
> (they can install programas easily and configure the system easily too), so
> they don't need training to use Windows in their work.
>
> And of course, a person who lives alone and uses KDE needs to configure the
> network, the WI-FI, the printer, fax... or should he pay to a systems
> administrador to configure his computer?

I refered to households like mine were I am the "home administrator" to the 
linux box on which my sister and parents are working. I have to set 
everything up and then the log in and do there everyday work. So what would 
hapen if they find a "recently INSTALLED apps" category in kmenu?

Well, two possibilities: the app is named say "quanta plus" and they never 
heard of it or feal the desire of dealing with just another app cause they 
don't need it for there tasks - so they ignore it and the entire "recent 
INSTALLS" thing.

Or they asked me to install app XYZ cause they badly need it and now they find 
it in "recently INSTALLED". That mean for them that I finaly managed to 
install it ;-). But since it is say an Office app (they know, cause they have 
asked me to install it) they will find it anyway in the category "Office".

So again, what's the point of "recently installed apps"? Beside that MS does 
it like this (giving new apps a new color). For me (meaning for a single user 
desktop where I am user and admin, too) the information of the install date 
of an app is not relevant to make decisions which app I start to do a certain 
task. And remember that update circles are much shorter then in MS world so 
my "recend installs" would show all the bugfix releases etc. WHY should THIS 
be useful to the user?