More design disscussion ;)

[Neil Stevens]

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On Saturday October 19, 2002 12:19, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > > Don't you think that English, German or Japanese are used to left
> > > side menus much more than to right side menus, too ?
> >
> > People may be used to it, but it's still cluttering and distracting.
>
> That is subjective ;)

But the issue of items on the left being more prominent is objective.

> I think the nav bar needs a prominent place (but that is subjective, too
> ;).

Then you completely miss the point of what these webpages are supposed to 
be.  If someone visits usability.kde.org, it's a *lot* more likely that 
they're trying to read up on usability, rather than to get a link to the 
LXR.

We seem to be in agreement (though with very little feedback) that the 
www/index should be made a links page.  Why isn't that enough?  Why must 
the content of every page in KDE be made secondary to that sidebar?

> If a user is simply used to search for the main navbar at the left or
> top (as it is on the most pages, go and look around, if they not even
> use more menus), why make him to go to the right side ? It is like you
> are used to have the menubar of your app on the top, but now you have it
> at the bottom. It may be nicer in some cases and perhaps you even find a
> usabilty reason to put it there, but in the end, the user will have to
> relearn just for "your" app/page.

Are you honestly suggesting that having the links on the right will be 
harder to use?

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