Re: [Usability] About Me Applet

[Matt Fellows <matt fellows onegeek com au>]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 11:22 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> For users that are not paranoid about their personal data, the applet
> could provide them with a single point to enter it, instead of
> separately to every application that needs it.
> 

It could be used by browsers to enter in form information on the
Internet, obviously there are security issues to deal with (but we're
talking usability here so the developers can worry about that). As a
develop I find myself entering in simple details like my first name,
email address etc. all of the time to subscribe to newsletters etc.

I currently use the Google toolbar but I hate the amount of space that
it takes up. Instead of users having to download third party tools to do
these sorts of day-to-day activities why not provide a way to access
data that's available?

Cheers,

--Matt