Bug 254526

Summary:	User Interface isn't easily understood.
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	K Chandrasekhar Omkar <kcomkar>
Component:	desktop	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	christopher.j.bayliss, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description K Chandrasekhar Omkar 2010-10-18 08:03:14 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.2) 
OS:                Linux

KDE desktop user interface isn't easily understood by users. I received a lot of feedback from my network that KDE desktop is difficult to work with, as they do not find any icons, taskbars (like they have in traditional user interfaces). The plasma user interface, options & featurees of it are good to look, not for using.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
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It's an enhancement request, and doesn't identify any existing bug

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-10-18 14:48:13 UTC

Could you be more concrete about the feedback you got?

Comment 2 K Chandrasekhar Omkar 2010-10-19 08:02:19 UTC

Reply to "Comment #1"

Hi Christoph,

I asked all the users the following set of questions, and their suggestions to make linux more user friendly.

1. How do you rate the ease of understanding linux desktop?
   On a scale of 5, it was rated between 2 and 3. Where 5 is the best, 0 is the least.

2. Could you find all the installed programs on your computer easily?
   On a scale of 5, it was rated between 1 and 2.

3. Could you find all the required software installers without strain. Please include your ease of installation experience too.
   On a scale of 5, it was rater between 3 and 4. 

4. How do you feel is the look & feel of the KDE desktop?
   On a scale of 5, it was rated between 4 and 5.

5. Which features do you like the most in the UI?
   Most admired features are the graceful & sober animations. Cubical desktop effects.

6. Which features do you feel are hard to understand.
   The basic start menu, and the plasma on the desktop. Many couldn't understand what a plasma is, and how to work with it. They also said, it could be great if we have some start menu kind of thing, instead of right-clicking on the desktop.

7. Overall rating?
   On a scale of 5, KDE 4.5 has been rated as 3.

All the users are novice KDE users. They used linux with command-line/gnome user interfaces. Hence, you can take this survey results indicating the ease-of-use & understandability of KDE.

Please let me know incase of any more queries.

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2013-04-20 01:57:58 UTC

This is not a usable bug report.
Bug reports have to be about specific problems "make Plasma better" is not.

Comment 4 Jekyll Wu 2013-10-25 02:34:35 UTC

*** Bug 326588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***