Re: [Evolution] UI choices

[Kevin Cullis <kevincu orci com>]

Hi,


On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:31, Brett Johnson wrote:
> 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)

Whoa, I wish people would quit using the "dumbing down" comment when
describing features.  A more appropriate comment is "finding the 20% of
the features that 80% of the people use,"   Making a "dumb" comment like
that is condescending to those that do not or may not want to know
more.  I was a 15 year Mac user at one time (now Linux for three years)
because I didn't want to learn any more and the Mac did what I needed it
to do, but now that I've been using Linux I'm grateful that I have the
power not only to do the simple stuff at the GUI, but the power is
underneath if I so choose.  So, while it may be difficult to determine
what the 20% of the featurea are, at least consider the idea/concept of
"most requested" feature rather than "dumbing down" the features. 
Thanks.

BTW, Apple seems to be doing a good job of making things simple for
novice users and keeping the power available for power users. ;-)

> 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!

Kevin

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Kevin Cullis <kevincu orci com>