A really good article on software usability
David G. Miller
dave at davenjudy.org
Fri Jan 5 15:11:59 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Where's the Linux software that matches this
> ease of use? Or that even lets me set up something once by picking
> from a few selections, then never asks again?
A glaring example of this is the Thunderbird prompt as to whether images
should be displayed. A "learn" function (e.g., "Always display e-mail
images from this sender?") would be wonderful. Instead, everyday I have
to click "Display images" in order to read my "Daily Dilbert" as well as
several other e-mails.
There are other examples but this is a case where the developers
blatantly ignore how most people use a particular program.
Cheers,
Dave
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