Kickoff w/Breadcrumbs in QML

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday, December 23, 2011 13:15:22 Xavier Sythe wrote:
> Just to confirm, does the QML Kickoff still have keyboard navigation?
> I think that it would be a good idea to not only add support for a mouse's
> back button, but also the standard backspace key on keyboards.
> This would enable full navigation of Kickoff solely with the keyboard, a
> feature which, until now, has been limited by the lack of a back button
> shortcut.

yes, it should be fully keyboard navigable.

and btw, i'm tired of these discussions of the back button. if they are 
continuing in a week from now without being accompanied by patches to Martin's 
QML branch, i will start moderating the list to weed them out. :)

>  As for the UI back button, Novell's usability team did determine that it
> was needed.
> Who are we, as non-UX professionals, to argue against this decision?

*sigh* so, while not a UX professional in terms of having a degree behind it, 
i have what i like to think of as a reasonable amount of experience in these 
matters. i could point out a few things in Active, for instance, that would be 
different had i not weighed in, with reasons provided, with adjustments that 
went against the original UX pro's recommendations which, upon user testing, 
turned out better. i'm not a noob, and there are others here with increasing 
skills in this area as well.

furthermore, this study was done some years ago. these trends shift (see the 
impact the web has had on UIs in general in the last 5-8 years, or mobile in 
the last 2-3). and there is often more than one good answer.

while i love research and reallye njoy working with UX people, i also dislike 
the concept that they are untouchable high priests of the UI. in fact, i often 
find UX people have a blind spot for aesthetics and an emphasis on the 
theoretical over the practical.

so ... everything with moderation.

> included in Plasma by default.  Available from KDE-Look, certainly, but
> KDE3's days were long ago.

we have people asking for it, and it's a feature we can add easily enough.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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