Re: [Evolution] Close window when deleting?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 11:50, Jeff Barlow wrote:
> Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>  wrote:
>
> > this indeed would be a great ui, no need for options because the
> > defaults were chosen properly :)
>
> Even with the smiley this sounds extremely arrogant.

I'm sorry you don't agree, but if you really feel hundreds of (most
likely untested) options is best, there's always other software.

> > several "designing the perfect ui" documents I've read say that more
> > options means bad ui, and that limiting the number of options makes a
> > better ui.
>
> If you assume the typical user is a monkey.

???

> > this can be done by choosing more sane defaults (which by
> > popular opinion we seem to have done)
>
> Oh yeah, popularity is a real wonderful measure of excellence.

how else would you judge? you can't please everyone, so if your target
users are happy then you've done your job well.

> If I wanted someone else to decide how I should use my computer I would
> be running MacOS.

I'd be using it except it lacks software I use (altho WoW is on MacOS so
maybe not ;)

> Later,
> Jeff