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AbiWord Weekly News #137

Submitted by stro on Sun, 2003-03-30 13:13. AbiWord

Bonobo work is progressing so rapidly, that I swear I just saw it inside of Nautilus the other day...actually, I did. SuSE in, SuSE out, SuSE's back on again if you're looking for packages for that dangerous distribution, thanks to James Ogley. More HIGrrrification^(TM) under development with three screenshots hidden in their own section of the developers' list. GNOME-enable'ers, fear not, it's not you, it's that french guy...Hub declares a great owing of donuts.

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Re: AbiWord Weekly News #137

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2003-03-30 22:18.

I also disagree that it would be "VERY" confusing for users to have these features. They've already had them. And they don't seem to be very confused.

That is just wrong. You cannot edit documents of any type in Explorer views. I don't know about Konq, but since the large majority of users have, at one point, probably used Windows to get their work done, they are largly unaccustomed to EDITING in a VIEW! On that point, you and others all call them views. That is what they should be. Views. Not Edits. Whether this is in your control or not or how diffictult it is to get to, doesn't concern me. File Managers may contain/embed Bonobo controls, a practice I disagree with, but they should be for viewing only. If I haven't made my point it is not because I wasn't clear and wasn't because I was unreasonable.

I don't know what you do or where you've been, but most of the users I have encountered have become easily confused when things start popping up in a view like that. Often times, in Explorer, the window is small and doing that makes it difficult to see without a lot of scrolling anyway. If you disagree, perhaps you need to talk to "real world" users and follow it up with some usability testing. Unfortunately, we have to write with the dumbest users in mind. Maybe we don't specifically target them, but we have to at least give them a chance. Not everyone has the level of intelligence or experience with computers that the people on this site will have.

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