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Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] Article: Usability and the Paradox of Choice
From:       Dotan Cohen <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-02-04 18:49:32
Message-ID: 880dece01002041049r6a52246bof576b7d3003472d5 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 4 February 2010 16:06, Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste@kde.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann@kde.org> wrote:
>> 2010/2/3 Aurélien Gâteau <agateau@kde.org>:
>>> The problem with micro-options is not only overloaded config dialog,
>>> it's maintenance nightmare: when you have too many options, the number
>>> of possible combinations explode. If you don't test them all, it's easy
>>> to introduce regressions.
>>
>> Very true.
>>
>> We found that this often happens with exotic "hidden options" which
>> almost noone uses. Very often, they also very buggy, because noone
>> tests them...
>
> It also makes you wonder that if you have to hide options from the
> general user population, how important or necessary are those options?
> I wonder how much of that "advanced" user population would be
> comfortable editing a config file and save 80%+ of the users a lot of
> UI junk to ignore.
>

So far as I am concerned, having the options in a config file or in
about:config would amount to the same thing. So long as it is
available, for most options I don't care how I set them.


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