Re: Getting serious about releasing

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

I think the solution to this is to remove the preferences from the
dialog, but leave in gconf keys so "hackers" (psychotics???) can fiddle
every little option in the gconf editor. User levels are bad though.

dave

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 21:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I am sorry to make my first post in this way because I didn't want to
> make it sound like a "whiner".
>   Although I regret it, I am making an opinion.
> 
>   I agree that reducing the amounts of configurations displayed to a
> novice user is good, because it confuses him.
> 
>   That way, I really enjoyed nautilus and sawfish in that they provided
> 3 different user levels, each displaying more preference options as you
> chose a higher level of experience.
> 
>   However, simply removing features without carefull thought is
> definitely not the way to do it.
> 
>   I'm talking of sawfish, right now.
>   I was running it as installed from 
>      sawfish2-2.0.pre1.0.200204212122-0.snap.ximian.1.i386.rpm
>   and today I updated to
>      sawfish2-2.0.pre1.0.200204230349-0.snap.ximian.1.i386.rpm
>   only to findout that sawfish had been so terribly crippled.
> 
> No more different levels... and worse... configurations that go to the
> level of metacity.
> 
> 
> Now, first of all, I agree that we can have a simpler window manager for
> less experienced users (I think that sawfish in novice mode is quite
> enough, but I don't have anything against having two choices) and
> metacity does that job well. However, there's no need to cripple
> sawfish.
> 
> Where gnome2 not in beta stage, I'd bet it was some random change on the
> development that caused that problem, but in beta time? Not very likely.
> 
> Two things I consider very bad decisions:
>   - removal of different levels of configuration
>   - removal of viewports.
>     viewports have a much more sane behaviour than workspaces (in
> sawfish at least), which is not to say that workspaces do not have their
> uses... I, for myself, use a 2ws*6cols viewports. A WS for work related
> stuff, and another one for personal stuff.
> 
> The first thing I did was change back sawfish to the build from the 21st
> of april.
> 
> Please, consider this plea of mine... let's make things easy for novice
> users, but do not ruin the usage experience of more experienced users.
> 
> Hugs, rms
> 
> -- 
> + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
> + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
> | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
> + So let's do it...?