[Bug 163393] first run: allow just run KMail (skip the wizard)

[Maciej Pilichowski]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163393





--- Comment #3 from Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins wp pl>  2011-12-21 10:55:08 ---
Let me start by saying, that I consider myself as power user, however I also
help weekend users to run computers, among them -- my Mom.

So first of all, I am a bit suspicious -- your Mom (as I understood it) is not
an expert, but she installs and configures KMail by herself? For me it is the
first contradiction (i.e. I am doubtful). The second contradiction is this --
your Mom (or in general, any weekend user) is supposed to understand all the
stuff with IMAP/POP3, SSL, plain text, and so on, no problem here, but there
_is_ problem with clicking "settings/configure KMail"? Somehow I cannot believe
it.

Wizard is not shown once. It is shown each time for every not-configured KMail.
And I saw it already too many times.

And few remarks of general nature. Good solutions scale up. If startup wizard
is such a good solution we should introduce it everywhere -- Dolphin,
Konqueror, Gwenview, KDE itself, and so on and on. Really?

IMHO -- no. It is counter productive. Ideally, installing and running program
should not require any user interaction -- it means no EULA's, not installation
wizards, no startup wizards. Program should not force user to do anything, it
should let do it. This is significant difference.

Programs should be usable, user-friendly, that's for sure, but they should not
undermine productivity -- if they do, they are more like toys, not tools.

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