[Usability] Re: [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds osdl org>]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
> than useful to the user.

I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.

This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of 
Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will 
use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long 
since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.

Please, just tell people to use KDE. 

		Linus