Re: Ideas/Regressions

On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 15:07, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 01:42:09PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > >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.
> 
> Sure, but is it preferable for your users, and why do you prefer it.
> 
> > >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 :)
> 
> The problem is that you place the threshold between power users and
> 'real' users to low, and there is a whole group of people who would find
> mouse gesture very cool, or who can really not live without consulting
> that broken web site which requires disabling js, but would have
> problems with using gconf-editor.
> 
> And don't forget that accident can happen, a little mouse move in the
> wrong moment, because your child is tugging you or whatever, and voila,
> you cnaged some setting you don't want.

You are missing the whole point of the G2 philosphy of reduced prefs
(which marco is taking on board), that is that you should not have prefs
which can mess up a users desktop (browser) 


> > Again I dont care about going through very general discussion about Gnome.
> > Do these in the right mailing list.
> 
> Ok, it is just, i recently installed galeon2, and seriously i don't like
> it, i would rather much keep galeon1, and not because of javascript
> issues, i never even touched this option, so in this instance at least
> you could count me among your real users :)))
> 
> > Also I think before sending mail about Gnome apps user interfaces, you would
> > better read HIG.
> 
> Ok, and guess what was the first thing that attracted my attention :
> 
>   Don't Limit Your User Base
> 
>   If you are designing an application for use by engineers, or by
>   children, or by system administrators, be sure to create an application
>   that can be used by all engineers, children, or system administrators,
>   including those with disabilities or those who are native speakers of a
>   language different from yours.
> 
> So, remember not to limit yourself only to the so called 'real users'.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
> 
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