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On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:41, Scott Newton wrote:
> One option for kcontrol would be have some sort of usability level with
> each option - say novice, intermediate, advanced - and have a option for
> the user to select their level with novice being the default. That way you
> can have very few options for those starting off but with the user having
> the option to show the more advanced ones rather if they so wish - rather
> than someone else deciding for them.

there's no such things as an "across the board intermediate" user (so you g=
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an interface that is poorly adjusted, or the settings are so fine grained y=
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lose all benefits), people are bad at judging their skill level and this=20
strategy creates a nearly impermiable barrier to learning the rest of the=20
interface. in other words, this simply doesn't work very well in practice.=
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ever wonder why, despite it being one of the most obvious ideas, virtually=
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nobody uses this strategy, and why many who have later stopped doing so?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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