[Mageia-dev] Graphical Mageia tools needs to be more friendly…

Thu May 5 03:02:38 CEST 2011

This is just a reminder to the developers.
+
+Some of us, including me, are keyboard junkies and we
+prefer to navigate our software from this device.
+Unfortunately most of the tools today are mouse
+oriented. Nothing wrong with that of course as we
+usually have a mouse as well.
+
+Unless you're (visually) impaired and can't use one…
+Essential tools like rpmdrake are downright useless
+to them in most cases as they lack hotkeys, label text/
+descriptions and the crucial full control from the
+keyboard. Thankfully we're not the only ones neglecting
+this group, as most vendors do. But as Orca and GNOME are
+reported to be pretty good, in some cases superior to the
+more well known Windows equivalents, we can no longer leave
+them in the dark and pretend that they doesn't use our
+operating systems graphically.
+
+Some of the key points above can also be adopted in general.
+Our graphical tools needs to be more verbose than they're
+are today. Remember which group we target and the sad state
+of some of those users experience/skills. Some of them needs
+to be spoon feed with information and I guess we could do that.
+
+Let's show them that we're more than just zealots, hackers,
+greasemonkeys and elitist by making something the common
+person feels comfortable with too.
+
+Sincerely,
+Olav
+