Re: PATCH for some random stuff.

[Josh Steiner <joschi eds org>]

i totally agree with the "adding preferences for stuff you can't decide on
is a copt out" mantra, absolutely.  but is this really considered a
preference?  isn't there room in the interface for things that are helpful
and informative the first couple time your see them?  you see precident
for this in lots of gui's:  mozilla/ie/netscape 4.x had tons of these
style dialogs when you fire up a new profile, though when you have too
many of them they get really annoying.  its also roughly comparable to the
tips you see apon first launch of lots of programs.

-Josh

 On 25 Jun 2002, Dave Bordoley wrote:

> I think adding a preference is crack. We need to make a decision. Adding
> a preference here is just us saying we can't make a decision so add a
> preference. Changing to manual layout is easy. right click arrange =>
> manually.
> 
> also as i stated before, macos hard sorted layout has no such dialog
> either, which leads me to believe that this is not a usability problem.
> (imho the dialog is a major usability problem as it causes me unneeded
> headaches all day long).
> 
> dave
> 
> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 16:01, Josh Steiner wrote:
> > i'm not sure how the gnome ui guidelines feel about these, but it seems to
> > me the best comprimise for this situation would be to have a 
> > 
> > "[ ] Do not ask me this again" 
> > 
> > on that popup, i really dont ever want to see it again, but i can see the
> > merit in what you are saying
> > 
> > -Josh
> > 
> 

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