* Hans Oischinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Sep 27. 2005 22:40]: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:59, Jan Samohýl wrote: > > 2. Application (and other desktop components) should persistently log > > all (except very trivial) actions you did. Countless times my mother > > said "oops, what I just did?" - so she would find answer in the log. Or > > she had some problem, but is not able to give enough information like > > what exactly she did or what was the popup error message, so you would > > just look into the log and see. > Well, some applications already have this ability. First one that comes to my > mind is Adobe Photoshop (and probably other Adobe products) which displays > all undoable commands in a tool window. Some KDE apps have this, too. Karbon > comes to my mind.
Actually it was photoshop that I was using at the time that I lost my file :-( The history only goes back so far. And karbon sucks for a million other reasons. I really don't know why KDE wants SVGs so much yet is unwilling to make a decent editor for them. Karbon was a great idea that was simply not worked on further, even though there were people reporting bugs, wishes, etc. > It's very usefull if the software allows very complex editing, etc. However I > don't think that I'd use it for simpler appications like kwrite or even > kword. Whereas this is exactly where I would use it. Between German an English I tend to save a lot of files for later examination/improvement. > It'd be interesting to know if this is a good thing (TM) for less experienced > users (like maybe mothers :)) from a usability perspective. Yeah, a good uasability test to examine such issues would be the best statistical method of determing the importance of said features. Bye, Ken -- Kenneth Wimer ------------------------------------------------------------- Scheinbare Rechtschreibfehler beruhen auf einer individuellen Rechtschreibreform _______________________________________________ Appeal mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/appeal
