[Panel-devel] Fwd: KMenu: Users and Usage

[Wade Olson]

Has anyone reviewed the Novell Better Desktop videos to see how users
of different profiles use the Start Menu?

http://www.betterdesktop.org/welcome/?q=data


On 10/21/05, Barış Metin <baris at uludag.org.tr> wrote:
> Thursday 20 October 2005 13:39 tarihinde, Celeste (seele) Paul şunları
> yazmıştı:
> > Primary audience revisited: By volume there are more Beginning users
> > actually using the KMenu (in most to all cases of application launching,
> > browsing for software, learning the system), however it is just as
> > important for Moderate users (primarily for browsing software, but also
> > launching applications).  Improvements to the menu may change usage
> > patterns of all groups.  A good target audience for the KMenu would be in
> > between Beginner and Moderate users.  The menu will be easy enough for the
> > newest user to train and overcome, but advanced enough with features to
> > accomodate Moderate users.  Beginner and Moderate users are the bulk of
> > our targeted KDE audience as well as the primary users for the KMenu.
>
> Thank you for the detailed report :). I'm sure this will be very helpful
> improving the K Menu.
>
> What I understand is, the main usage is based on the two needs:
>
> - browse the application list and learn the system.
> - search for infrequently used applications.
>
> Are these the only things we need to improve on K Menu?
>
> AFAIK, not all but many, users use K Menu for tasks other than launching
> applications too. Like, loging off, locking session, switching user or
> opening a recently used file. We should consider these tasks (and others that
> can be embeded to the new K Menu) too.
>
> regards,
> --
> Barış Metin
>
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