Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Oct 2008 17:04 UTC
This is the tenth article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts' Law, and more. The aim of this series is to explain these terms, learn something about their origins, and finally rate their importance in the field of usability and (graphical) user interface design. Fitting for this rounded number, part X will detail the window.
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i use KDE and the first thing i do in most KDE apps is turn off a lot of menubars and remove a lot of unnecessary(to me) buttons on toolbars i leave behind.
There is nothing wrong with having options in KDE, its just that KDE seems bloated if all available toolbars and buttons are displayed by default and leave it up the the user to remove what they dont need ..why not have a small set of mostly used toolbars and buttons and leave it to people to add additional functionality as they see fit instead of having on by default everything and leave it to people to remove what they dont need to remove clutter?