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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch on ksnapshot
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-08-29 18:56:48
Message-ID: 200608292056.50093 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Tuesday 29 August 2006 18:21, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 1:21, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> > > and Open With into a graphics app and printing from there
> > > wouldn't do?
> >
> > That's obviously many more additional steps.
>
> </obviously>
>
> think about optimizing code: you don't optimize for the case that
> happens 1% of the time if it creates poor performance the rest of the
> 99% of the time. if you have to choose between 1% being ok and 99%
> being great or 99% being ok and 1% being great, what do you pick?
>
> same thing.
>
> if 1% of the people using ksnapshot use it to print and 99% of the
> people don't, then what should we optimize for? if we try and cater
> to each 1% use case we'll end up with a cluttered interface that
> sucks for 99% or people. it's the same phenom when one tries to
> optimize for only the top 10% of use cases in a UI: it ends up
> sucking for more than 90% of users.

Sure. But how do you know how many people actually use the Print button?

Regards,
Ingo

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