Re: Ideas/Regressions

>What about a simple menu option, placed somewhere obvious, which would
>be called enable advanced UI, and which would be made to enable advanced
>UI elements when set, and when unset would not only hide the advanced UI
>elements, but also revert every change done in the advanced UI elements
>to some safe default (or the previous state, or whatever). I guess you
>would enable a gconf-editor pref to make this UI option shown or not, or
>even a compile time switch, so someone wanting to use gnome/galeon as a
>corporation desktop or whatever, can disable it for all the users.

I veru much prefer a power teaks approach where advanced users can install
an additional plugin to have their feature.

>Because the galeon setting are just a click away from the settings for
>other apps ?

Heh I'd be really surprised if this would be a problem. Esp for such power
users :)

>Mmm, let's explain this, you speak about real user and about power
>users, but there are a whole lot of graduation between them.
>
>Imagine a basic user, who don't know anything about unix or gnome or
>whatever, which uses gnome because he got a box from a wide public
>distrib (like lindows or so) and he heard about these cool mouse gesture
>feature that he can enable by editing /apps/galeon/Advanced/whatever in
>gconf-edit in some web page about mouse gestures (or even worse, just
>that you can enable mouse gestures in gconf-editor). So there he goes
>opens gconf-editor, and navigates it, is much more bewildered by it than
>any menu he may have had to visit, and either feels lost and abandons
>it, or feels bold and will try to modify the entry. In the second case,
>he may even feel bolder and try out some other stuff in gconf-editor,
>maybe even some of the other apps, and voila! he may very well have
>screwed up his whole setting. 
>
>Also, there are also more tech savy users, which would want to test some
>of these option, or simply find one of the disapearing options important
>to them and want to reenable them, but are not of the level to be
>confident in using gconf-editor.
>
>That is without telling about the possibilities of errors during the
>manipulation, or the current brokeness of gconf-editor (due to a problem
>with debian's shipping experimental gnome2 packages, i needed to change
>the default windows manager in the gconf-editor, and well, choosing edit
>only makes gconf-editor disappear, sure it will be fixed someday, but
>gconf-editor does not seem to be a very solid app to rely upon) and all
>kind of things can go wrong.
>
>And anyway, i am not familiar with the HIG or whatever, but anyone that
>decided that it is better to put all the prefs for all apps in a single
>place was clearly on crack, a MS worshipper, or whatever. If i want to
>change things for galeon, then i go to the galeon preference menu or
>whatever it is called, not to some central pref repository. And i would
>much like to hear the arguments about it, and preferably from something
>who did not use MS windows for the last 10 years.
>

Again I dont care about going through very general discussion about Gnome.
Do these in the right mailing list.
Also I think before sending mail about Gnome apps user interfaces, you would
better read HIG.

Marco



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