Re: [Usability] user levels, etc.

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:55, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On 12Nov2001 09:43PM (-0800), Seth Nickell wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, I very much agree with the approach they are taking here. They
> > are moving things that suck rocks into the dumping ground, and slowly
> > migrating options that people actually need to change back into the main
> > CC. That is a much more sensible approach given that MOST preferences in
> > the CC as it stands shouldn't be there. I feel like the CC people are
> > doing exactly what Adam suggests here: actually taking responsibility
> > for designing useful prefs. The dumping ground has intentionally thrown
> > out the baby with the bathwater as we figure out what is actually
> > necessary.
> 
> I'm not so sure this was a good approach. Some things that users may
> well need to configure are now not easily configurable at all without
> installing extra software, for example file types and application
> associations.
> 
> This has actually led to complaints and bug reports.

That's because Ximian decided to actually start shipping the thing.

-Seth