More design disscussion ;)

[Christoph Cullmann]

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On Saturday 19 October 2002 21:28, Neil Stevens wrote:
> 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?
?
The left sidebar contains all links of the current page, is that unimportant ?

>
> > 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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Christoph Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
cullmann at kde.org
http://kate.kde.org
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