New project: Aktions

[Mr Bulldog]

it is a good idea and well documented, but really I don't think that Kde is
ready for it or at least parts won't be needed for it. For example the Kde
promotion team was only just set up and we haven't produced a questionnaire
on about kde desktop usage that has been officialy released. I think that we
should have more expirience collecting data and using it and perhaps when
kde 4 is released the system could be created, maybe even if enougn time for
koffice 2.0 Yet to keep it simple, working with basic questionnaires would
be best off now, unless a developer would be intrested in developing it.
However I do agree that for kde 4 or a future release, a more innovative
system should be created, ever for say konqueror or something else. This is
my bread and butter, but I'd suggest speaking to the promo team about it, as
it may work well together.

On 14/03/06, Zak Jensen <coolguyzak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Note: CC'ed the kde-quality and kde-usability mailing lists.
>
> I guess I should first introduce myself, for those who do not know me.
> I am Zak Jensen, a senior at Drexel University, and a long time
> supporter of open source, the KDE project in particular. Some of you
> may know me from kdedevelopers.org (where I have responded to some of
> your blog posts), the kde-usability mailing list, or kde-artists. I
> have been lurking on the kde-devel, kde-core-devel, and kde-quality
> mailing lists for about 2 months now.
>
> About 4 months ago, I proposed a replacement for the KTips dialog: a
> mix between non-intrusive version of clippy, a plasmoid, and the
> present KTips functionality.
>
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-usability&m=112609922114054&w=2
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-usability&m=112611125600245&w=2
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-usability&m=112611417629919&w=2
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-usability&m=112670485931144&w=2
>
> And have also talked about it a bit on the kde-artists forums.
> Unfortunately, the kollaboration forums have been relocated, and I
> cannot find the original post at this time.
>
> In any case, the idea has mutated from being an improvement of KTips
> to a generic "action monitoring" service. The basic idea is to collect
> abstract usage information from users, and analyze it. That analysis
> could be used to target interfaces which should be investigated. The
> information can also be used to pinpoint seldom used interfaces or
> features.
>
> It is important to mention at this point that we are providing an
> abstraction to prevent the perception of our software as malignant
> software. One way that we are doing this is by limiting the type of
> information which the system will accept. We are limiting the input
> information (in future versions) to abstractions like "typing",
> "button click", and "toggle checkbox".
>
> At the moment, we are finding out how the mechanism will work, or if
> it will work at all. Future versions of our software will be built
> with a proper outlook on security and privacy.
>
> My senior design team wishes to integrate with an already existing
> project, and I recommended KDE to them. To those ends, I was wondering
> how interested the community is in the project. We are open to ideas
> for features, feasibility, and recommendations on how to integrate
> with KDE. We are not looking to be incorporated into the project at
> this time. Rather, we require an audience to help us tailor and focus
> our project, and we hope that there will be a few interested projects
> within KDE.
>
> Another portion of our project is defining a generic model for
> graphical user interfaces which can be applied across several
> platforms. If anyone knows of such a model which already exists
> (excepting that defined by a set of libraries) details for that would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Attached are 4 documents (in the tar file) providing more detail for
> our project. The best viewing of the html files occurs within
> Konqueror, but they render alright within FireFox 1.5 as well.
>
> Please forward any questions back to this thread or, if I  have posted
> to a particular mailing list in err of its guidelines, to me
> personally.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zak
>
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