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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] semi transparent rubberband
From:       Chris Lee <clee () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-10 15:04:09
Message-ID: 200402100804.10694.clee () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 10 February 2004 03:09, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> On Monday 09 February 2004 23:36, aviv bergman wrote:
> > On Monday 09 February 2004 23:09, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> > > I second the motion of not making it an option.
> >
> > i don't really see the problem with config option (it's the same as
> > selecting a style), and kcpuinfo won't help.
>
> We can't have an option for every possible behavoir of KDE. IMHO we already
> have too many...
>
> If things _can_ be autoconfigured they _should_ be. 

That's fine. That doesn't mean that we should make it impossible for the user 
to change it without modifying the source code.

> Why should the user  know if his video card has alpha-blending acceleration?
> Why should it  change its options when he switch from a old videocard to 
> a new one?
>
> BTW this concept should be applied to all the options available in KDE and
> not just this.

No, it shouldn't. There's a reason why we aren't GNOME. That's their 
philosophy, and it works fine for them, but it's not ours. There are a lot of 
current KDE users who are with us because the whole "Let's decide everything 
for the user and take away their options" attitude is extremely presumptuous, 
and they use our desktop because we don't do that to them.

Should we automatically pick what we think is the best default? Absolutely. 

Should we do everything possible to make it perform as fast as possible on 
every machine that it could run on? Of course.

But should we take away the user's ability to turn it off because somebody 
thinks they know better than the enduser? No way in hell.

-Chris
 
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