Review Request 117450: Add Milou to the default panel layout

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Mon Apr 14 05:24:19 UTC 2014


On Saturday 12 April 2014 20:03:22 you wrote:
> On Saturday, April 12, 2014 09:14:38 AM Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > "My concern is more on how the users will see it. Will they understand
> > that
> > Milou and Kickoff work differently or will they think that we ship
> > redundant features by default? So yes they serve a different purpose, but
> > from an end user perspective I rather doubt it."
> 
> a.) Most of the users won't discover the search in KickOff because there is
> no search bar. I could be wrong, but I don't think people think "if I type
> here, it will start searching"

if they don't start searching than we have a usability problem in Kickoff 
which needs fixing. Bugs in one component should not be a reason to introduce 
redundant applications.

> 
> b.) It's only "redundant" if they do the same thing, which they clearly do
> not.

Both list applications thus it's an "application launcher", thus it's 
redundant from an end-user point of view.

Cheers
Martin
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