RE: [Evolution] UI choices

["Kevin Bowen" <kevin ucsd edu>]

Now admittedly I'm a bit of a noob, so there may be some reason I'm overlooking that this hasn't been 
suggested yet, but to me it seems like the obvious solution would be to make this a pref, but not expose it 
in evolution's prefs dialogs, only editable in gconf. Wouldn't everyone be happy that way?

-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Johnson [mailto:brett hp com]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:31 PM
To: evolution lists ximian com
Subject: Re: [Evolution] UI choices


On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:46, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> Uh guys, rather than arguing about the correct way to do it, why not
> follow your thought to its logical conclusion?
>
> SOME people want it one way. SOME OTHER people want it a different way.
> So add the power to the interface to choose between them. 
>
> Flexibility is, after all, the hall mark of the Open world, and opposed
> to the "though shalt only do it this proscribed way" which is what
> pisses so many of us off about Outlook and friends. Outlook is great
> software, but you can't *control* it! Please don't make Evolution like
> that.

Amen Brother and Hallelujah!

Dumbing down the interface to satisfy the novice, while sacrificing
advanced functionality and flexibility for everyone else is *exactly*
what's *wrong* with Windows.  If Gnome (and by extension, Evolution)
continues to follow the same path, it won't be any more appealing than
Windows/Outlook (or KDE/Kmail for that matter).  Please, evolution
developers, don't follow this path.  It leads to darkness...

Cheers!
-- 
Brett Johnson <brett hp com>
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