Re: [Usability] user levels, etc.

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 12Nov2001 09:43PM (-0800), Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> Actually, I very much agree with the approach they are taking here. They
> are moving things that suck rocks into the dumping ground, and slowly
> migrating options that people actually need to change back into the main
> CC. That is a much more sensible approach given that MOST preferences in
> the CC as it stands shouldn't be there. I feel like the CC people are
> doing exactly what Adam suggests here: actually taking responsibility
> for designing useful prefs. The dumping ground has intentionally thrown
> out the baby with the bathwater as we figure out what is actually
> necessary.

I'm not so sure this was a good approach. Some things that users may
well need to configure are now not easily configurable at all without
installing extra software, for example file types and application
associations.

This has actually led to complaints and bug reports.

 - Maciej