The KDE team has released KDE 3.5.8, a maintenance release. New stuff: "Improvements in Konqueror and its web browsing component KHTML. Bugs in handling HTTP connections have been fixed, KHTML has improved support of some CSS features for more standards compliance. In the kdegraphics package, lots of fixes in KDE's PDF viewer and Kolourpaint, a painting application, went into this release. The KDE PIM suite has, as usual, seen numerous stability fixes, covering KDE's email client KMail, the organizer application KOrganizer and various other bits and pieces."
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Member since:2005-09-21
Any evidence for this? I've seen plenty of people have a go at my linux desktop, and no-one has "freaked out". Yes it takes a few seconds to figure out what's going on, but without fail people have managed to find the equivalent of the Start menu and launch a browser and use it without problems. Studies have shown that the usability of KDE is approximately the same as Windows XP (and that was with KDE 3.1.2, things have improved dramatically since then) http://www.linux-usability.de/download/linux_usability_report_en.pd...
Member since:2007-02-17
I've seen people freak out when they've been upgraded from windows 2000 to xp. trust me they are out there. I happen to work somewhere where its common and people are as computer savvy as a chimp. These aren't stupid people, these are people who are ceo's of fortune 500 companies and billion dollar companies, yet they freak out when a toolbar isn't in the same place it used to be in windows 2000, now imagine them switching to KDE. When we upgraded everyone in our company to windows XP (because of the IT policy) it was a huge ordeal and most users rejected it straight away, we had to make XP look as similar as possible to 2000 in-order for them to digest it. I don't even want to mention what happened with office 2003 and the absence of the office bar. Not everyone's as savvy as you think.
Member since:2005-07-06
Even students that know how to write a paper or a spreadsheet in MS Office, or read their e-mail freak out when they are put in front of a different DE.
I assume you have a study to back this up, but, they get different mobile phones all the time......
If the above is the case, then confronting them with right -> left button ordering would seem rather daft, no? ;-)
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2005-08-15
They still don't...
Even students that know how to write a paper or a spreadsheet in MS Office, or read their e-mail freak out when they are put in front of a different DE.