Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu>]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> Too many options are bad.  But few options is just as bad.  A lot of
> people joined the GNOME "camp" because they wanted the option to have a
> different window manager that was not the one the one single vision.

I don't think that people want *options*, rather I think people want a 
certain set of *features*.

For instance, I switched to gnome because there were certain features 
that I could turn on through the options system -- but I didn't want the 
*options*, I just wanted the *features*.

If gnome can provide the features that people want, without bothering 
with options, then throw away the options!