KDevelop usability

[F@lk Brettschneider]

Hi,

Chris Howells wrote:
> This is something that just came up on suse-linux-uk-schools at suse.com is as
> follows:
>
> "This is one
>  of the major gripes I have with programs such as KDevelop that go through
>  an extensive setup routine the first time the user runs the program.  A
>  user interface that requires you to just repeatedly click on "Next"
>  shouldn't be there!"
>
> It might be useful to the KDevelop authors, or to anybody doing a usability
> study on KDevelop.


August Hörandl wrote:
> 
> Ralf Nolden wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 04 December 2001 09:43, Chris Howells wrote:
> >
> > Crap. Has anyone ever asked why windows programs ask thousand Ok, I agree
> > things when they get installed ? :)
> >
> > Seriously, we keep the questions as simple as possible and that setup routine
> > makes it *easier* to set up kdevelop. If you ignore it, you'll most likely
> > run into trouble if you don't know what you're doing. Besides, you can cancel
> > it and just start kdevelop :)
If we remove the setup routine, I bet, they'll send us hundreds of
bugreports like "I don't find where to setup xyz :-(" or "Why is f...ing
Childframe mode the default one?" and so on.
Furthermore, it's a common method, every application which is quite
complex has such helper for defining a good environment with a few mouse
clicks on first startup. For example see StarOffice. In case of not
having such setup, the user is forced to search through many possible
options.

> 
> "cancel" isn't obvios - i alway thought that would cancel the
> whole kdevelop startup
Cancel just cancels the setup without starting kdevelop.

> 
> so a "i am new here - setup everything and lets start" button wouldn't
> be that bad (instead or in addition to a real cancel)
Good idea. Can one add a button to QWizard?

> 
> just my 2 cents
Euro-Cent,please ;)

Just my humble opinion,
Ciao,F at lk

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