Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Mar 2007 19:46 UTC, submitted by C2H5OH
KDE "As some of you who monitor the KDE news sphere may have noticed, there has been a recent addition to the kdebase module. The Dolphin File Manager has been added to complement Konqueror's browsing capabilities. Read on for more information about this new File Manager and its relationship to Konqueror and the rest of KDE."
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RE[3]: Dolphin
by butters on Sat 3rd Mar 2007 15:45 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Dolphin"
butters
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After all, Konqueror is essentially a shell for embedded viewers. The various quirks which embedded viewers suffer caused frustration for a number of participants in a file browsing user interface study which was produced last year.

IMHO, this is the correct approach. If the embedded viewers have quirks, then this is a flaw in the implementation, not in the design. Usability studies are only useful if you can determine whether the underlying cause is poor design or merely poor implementation.

Let me put it this way. If the embedded viewers behaved as they should, then would the test subjects have had problems?

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