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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Graphical Mageia tools needs to be more friendly&#8230;</H1>
    <B>Ahmad Samir</B> 
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    <I>Mon May  9 20:29:15 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 5 May 2011 03:02, Olav Dahlum &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">odahlum at broadpark.no</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> This is just a reminder to the developers.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Some of us, including me, are keyboard junkies and we
</I>&gt;<i> prefer to navigate our software from this device.
</I>&gt;<i> Unfortunately most of the tools today are mouse
</I>&gt;<i> oriented. Nothing wrong with that of course as we
</I>&gt;<i> usually have a mouse as well.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Unless you're (visually) impaired and can't use one&#8230;
</I>&gt;<i> Essential tools like rpmdrake are downright useless
</I>&gt;<i> to them in most cases as they lack hotkeys, label text/
</I>&gt;<i> descriptions and the crucial full control from the
</I>&gt;<i> keyboard. Thankfully we're not the only ones neglecting
</I>&gt;<i> this group, as most vendors do. But as Orca and GNOME are
</I>&gt;<i> reported to be pretty good, in some cases superior to the
</I>&gt;<i> more well known Windows equivalents, we can no longer leave
</I>&gt;<i> them in the dark and pretend that they doesn't use our
</I>&gt;<i> operating systems graphically.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Some of the key points above can also be adopted in general.
</I>&gt;<i> Our graphical tools needs to be more verbose than they're
</I>&gt;<i> are today. Remember which group we target and the sad state
</I>&gt;<i> of some of those users experience/skills. Some of them needs
</I>&gt;<i> to be spoon feed with information and I guess we could do that.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Let's show them that we're more than just zealots, hackers,
</I>&gt;<i> greasemonkeys and elitist by making something the common
</I>&gt;<i> person feels comfortable with too.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Sincerely,
</I>&gt;<i> Olav
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>
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
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