Plasma User Types

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 12 April 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote:
>
> Hi Celeste,
>
> thank you very much for taking the time to answer, also for writing it
> down in a comprehensible way, like I could not have done it.
>
> The only thing I'm still unwilling to accept is, that one has to leave
> the old ladies behind. (how sad is that? :-) A sign of good design is
> that it caters to 100% (which I like to simply refer to as: humans),
> and only if one fails to come up with good design should one try to do
> bad design, that at least appeals to 80%. That's all.

well, humans are very different beasts each other, but a thing that i wanted 
to point here is something that maybe others have already more or less said, 
but anyways...
At the moment the only way we would have to appeal some users (all in the not 
curious categories for example no matter if windows, linux or mac users) is 
to exactly clone the behaviour of an old system being that windows kde3 or 
whatever.
it is totally not what we should want to do, because we should really ask 
ourselves why dropping kicker and kdesktop :)
only to do a new thing with new concepts will effectively appeal without 
feeling a cheap ripoff of whatever, and at the start it really can't not piss 
off someone, because the change is always hard, but when we will have ironed 
out some of the many glitches that there are right now, maybe also a not 
curious user at all would start to think that plasma is more easy to use than 
what he is accustomed to.
so for now we really should have to focus on more power users that are willing 
to try it and live with the glitches for a while and why not, new users that 
did not used pcs at all, like children and why not old ladies can also be 
included into that, it's not so uncommon :)

Ceers,
Marco Martin