Re: A different point of vision (was: Appearance capplet)

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

How about we hide it in gconf or dconf or whatever it is and then document how to change it in a centralized location on our website as "tricks and features you don't know about" or whatever.  The idea then is to generate a community place to go for these things.  Then create a link in the appearances capplet that says something like "Can't find what you're looking for?  Check out wiki.gnome.org!"

Then we get a number of advantages:

1) we can catch who do want these options and what to restore them and have an end state on where to go to.  We could put in some rule that if you decide to remove a ui component that they will need to stick how to restore it the wiki or document in the wiki.

2)  we now have a captured audience that the marketing team can create a community around that is outside the distro.

Finally...

I usually call William Jon McCann, Bill when he's not in ear shot.

sri

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Iain <iain gnome org> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it> wrote:

> It was more: "please don't remove those settings from the UI until we
> have a different, proper place to put them". :)

This is just a logical fallacy that says all options are equally
valid, the only thing wrong is where you put them
This has never been the thinking behind the gnome (2) UI and leads to
the abomination that is the "Advanced" tab[1]
and user interface's that become so bloated because you can never
remove any options lest someone somewhere found it a useful option.

No matter what options a user is presented, someone, somewhere will
think one of them is useful.
To use your anecdotal evidence, would your friend have really cared if
when looking through the settings tab they hadn't found the option to
change the toolbar setting?
William's[2] rule of thumb that the options we present are the ones
that we encourage people to change is pretty much spot on

iain

[1] Which even members of KDE are now realising is an abomination.
[2] William Jon's? I never know how to properly address people who use
two names, sorry.

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