Re: [Usability]Attempt at constructive criticism - "Why Gnome 2 sucks for me"

[Aleksander Adamowski <olo altkom com pl>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> The thing is, most desktop users will like or be indifferent to all of
> those things, with the possible exception of button order. People
> don't want to customize things that should just work;
But they do want to customize things which are a matter of taste, not 
"work" xor "not work".
And they want to customize things for which an agreement cannot be made 
about what does work and what doesn't.

> they don't know
> what a window manager or registry is and would be angry if you made
> them learn; they like OS X's appearance.
>  
That's why in M$'s software you have plenty of places that say "Advanced 
settings".
The people you talk about, casual users, just see the words "Advanced" 
on a tab in a dialog box and think to themselves "ok, I'm not advanced, 
no need to look there and get confused. I'll just ignore that tab.".
And everybody is happy - power users can tweak those things that bother 
them, casual users just ignore all things that have the word "Advanced" 
painted on them.

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