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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail: Colored quoted text feature added
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       2000-04-20 8:03:58
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, dep wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Don Sanders wrote:
> | I was thinking about the user. Giving them the additional
> | flexibility to set the font for each indentation level has the cost
> | of making it more difficult to set the font for all indentation
> | levels (because instead of changing one font that applies to all
> | levels of indentation they must change the font for each level of
> | indentation).
>
> a point of aesthetic privilege: multiple typefaces or sizes for
> varying levels of quotation offends the senses. it adds code, and it
> will clog the mailing lists with notes from non-serious people who
> also won't be able to get it to work. it is feature bloat -- "we'll
> do it because we can." i'm sure we've all seen, perhaps have, and not
> inconceivably have even written, such code. in this case it would be
> additional complication providing no additional functionality. kind
> of like the first time a kid gets hold of a word processor that has
> about 90 different typefaces. until he is severely beaten for the
> offense, he will try to use every one in every document.

Yes yes, sure.
Simple answer: don't use it if it offends your senses.

--Stefan

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