Re: [Usability] "Advanced" button?



Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 14:12 +0300 schrieb Alexey Rusakov:
> Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > 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.
> >> ...
> >
> > Oh, for goodness sake. Arguing whether an "Advanced..." button is bad 
> > is like arguing whether ozone is bad. It depends where it is
> In GNOME dialogs
> > and what it's doing.
> Shows "pickier settings", as described above.
> 
> > (And, there's no such thing as an ordinary user.)
> Ok, let's call them inexperienced and seasoned, respectively.

Without pointing out concrete issues where you felt really limited by
the current dialog options, we can only consider your email a rant,
which doesn't really help us to improve the situation.

-- 
Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>

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