Re: Review of accelerator changes

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:
> > Should we kick the question of what the default should be to the
> > useability project? since I don't think we'll really get anywhere
> > with the:
> >
> >  "It's confusing for users"
> >
> > vs.
> >
> >  "It's a cool feature that everybody who has been using GTK+ since
> >   before 1.0 wants"
> >
> > argument. Just much not data there.
> 
> I can remember at least a few mails to user lists where users thought
> this was a bug, and at least a few mails to developer lists where
> developers wanted to turn it off due to user complaints/confusion. So
> there is at least some data. Whether it's conclusive is another
> issue. ;-)

Really, really we should turn off on-the-fly editing of keybinding stuff
by default.  It's too easy to do this by accident, and for blind users
it's mind-bogglingly confusing.  Unexpected for everybody the first time
it happens, I'd dare say.

-Bill

> The standard procedure is that when you have a power user feature that
> potentially confuses novice users, you turn it off by default, and let
> power users turn it on. Because power users can figure out how to turn
> it on, and novice users can't figure out what it is or how to get rid
> of it. That's why I would turn it off by default.
> 
> Havoc