Re: autocompletion

Ricardo Fernández Pascual <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
El mar, 26-11-2002 a las 14:42, Jeff Waugh escribió:
> <quote who="Ricardo Fern?ndez Pascual">
> 
> > Repeat with me: adding a pref is not the end of the world. Even if Havoc
> > says so.
> 
> Don't daemonise Havoc for stuff he has not said. His point is that you
> should think critically about the preferences you do choose, and I would
> strongly suggest that you haven't done so on this occasion.
> 
> Nothing to do with Havoc at all,

Yes, I know.

I didn't mean to despise Havoc. I am sorry if it sounded like it. I
actually agree with most things he says and with the whole idea of
simplifying interfaces in general and preference dialogs in particular.

But in the same thread you had mentioned the famous Havoc document about
that subject. I'm a bit tired of seeing it *every* time that someone
even thinks about adding a pref.

In some cases there's no "right" way to do something[1]. I think this is
one of those cases[2]. 

[1] There are more cases. For example, bug #86108 (which i think is not
going to be fixed anytime and makes imposible for me to use metacity).

[2] I have thought about this a lot because autocompletion is my pet
feature. What some people find terribly useful annoys other people a
lot.

-- 
Ricardo Fernández Pascual
[email protected]
Murcia. España.



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