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

Mon May 9 20:29:15 CEST 2011

On 5 May 2011 03:02, Olav Dahlum <odahlum at broadpark.no> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+I think detailed bug reports with suggestions on what needs to be
+improved and how it can be improved can be a first step.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+