Re: [Usability] "Advanced" button?



On Feb 17, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Alexey Rusakov wrote:

Thomas Winwood wrote:

GNOME has the image in the Linux community of being simplistic or featureless due to its preference not to add an option for everything under the sun. Why does GNOME not use an Advanced button to hide pickier settings keeping the regular user's experience the clean GNOME look which is desired?

What for? I believe this button is unneeded for a an "ordinary user", and "unordinary users" can use gconf-editor anyway.
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Oh, for goodness sake. Arguing whether an "Advanced..." button is bad is like arguing whether ozone is bad. It depends where it is and what it's doing.

(And, there's no such thing as an ordinary user.)

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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