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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Re: simplifying KControl
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2003-01-30 11:45:37
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On Thursday January 30, 2003 03:38, kudling@kde.org wrote:
> > * a setting should only be configurable if it has meaning to the user.
> > 	- For example, "change desktop colours" is easy to understand
> > 	- "repaint the desktop using the Barnes-Foobar algorithm" is
> > 	meaningless unless you understand the algorithm
>
> You will always find a group of 5 Barnes-Foobar algorithm wizards who
> will say "We asked 5 people in our Barnes-Foobar algorithm user group.
> They all understand what it means. According to Aaron's rule, all people
> understand it. It should stay."
>
> I see no escape from this endless discussions.

.. except the one you said earlier, to make a separate simplifed 
configuration tool.  

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insidious that a
state bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not allow
them in any public sphere." -- Thurgood Marshall
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