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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Gnome Article on UI Design on /.
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-04-22 17:40:56
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On April 22, 2002 12:39, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:56:24AM -0700, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Sunday April 21, 2002 05:43, Nick Papadonis wrote:
> > >   - You can't make EVERYONE happy with a design decision, however you
> > > can please most people and others can hack a configuration file for
> > > happiness.
> >
> > Hard to do that when we have people who complain at every new
> > configuration option and who try to reduce the configurability, though.
>
> Why?
> not providing a config like he said seems to 'reduce the configurability'
> IMO. If you 'hack a configuration file' then that has nothing to do with
> the configurability. But a lot more with coding/checking overhead (since
> you have to check for it in the software anyway). The GUI (o.a. me) people
> will not complain about that!

   I challenge you to edit the KSSL config files by hand.

   Editting config files is basically out of the question with KDE.  What we 
could do is have an "advanced" section in KControl.  However it seems that 
most people use the defaults, so having good defaults is probably better than 
anything.

   In any case, I would be very annoyed to have to edit a config file to 
change settings, no matter what the setting.  I might as well use the console 
then.


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