Re: [Usability] "Advanced" button?

[Alexey Rusakov <ktirf users sf net>]

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Alexey Rusakov wrote:
> > Thomas Winwood wrote:
> > > GNOME has the image in the Linux community of being simplistic or 
> > > featureless due to its preference not to add an option for 
> > > everything under the sun. Why does GNOME not use an Advanced button 
> > > to hide pickier settings keeping the regular user's experience the 
> > > clean GNOME look which is desired?
> >
> > What for? I believe this button is unneeded for a an "ordinary user", 
> > and "unordinary users" can use gconf-editor anyway.
> > ...
>
> Oh, for goodness sake. Arguing whether an "Advanced..." button is bad 
> is like arguing whether ozone is bad. It depends where it is
In GNOME dialogs
> and what it's doing.
Shows "pickier settings", as described above.

> (And, there's no such thing as an ordinary user.)
Ok, let's call them inexperienced and seasoned, respectively.

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 Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov