Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> What is happening is that options that most people doesn't know about or
> care about is being moved entirely into GConf and not visualized in the
> UI. The hackers will know they can find these extra options in GConf (by
> for example using gconf-editor) and can thus tweak there desktop as they
> like.

This is not really an ideal solution.  

You can create poor user interfaces in both ways:

	* By doing a poor job and not figuring decent defaults (this is
	  the Joel Spolsky argument).

or:

	* By doing a poor job and removing features, because you did not
	  want to think about good defaults (this is where it seems
	  people are moving). 

Too many options are bad.  But few options is just as bad.  A lot of
people joined the GNOME "camp" because they wanted the option to have a
different window manager that was not the one the one single vision.

Miguel.