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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [dolphin] [Bug 336910] Usability-wishlist
From:       Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2014-07-01 11:46:46
Message-ID: bug-336910-17878-24hojoXnZB () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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--- Comment #5 from Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac@googlemail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> All my suggestions are based on long experience with "Idoswin/Idoswin
> Pro(c)" (by Ingo Eckel). So I know such features are useful. Configuration
> is easy.

No, configuration is not easy at all. "Just add a new option" always looks like
the easy way to solve a problem. But even if we ignore completely that every
new configuration option introduces new code paths and thus makes extensive
testing considerably more difficult, such that the code quality will definitely
suffer in the long term (always keep in mind that the number of people who work
on Dolphin is very small, and they are all volunteers who can contribute just a
few hours a week): every new option makes the user interface more complex, and
the more options we have, the harder it will become to use the application.

I'm not saying that we won't add any new options, but since adding an option
can be harmful for both usability and maintainability, we have to evaluate if
an option is useful enough for a large part of our user base before we can
consider adding it. This is why I suggsted that you propose your ideas in the
Brainstorm forum and discuss them with other users.

> p.s.: If you don't want suggestions/wishlist here, take that choice off the
> dropdown-list.

Well, in some cases it may make sense to file a wishlist report. Sometimes,
there are ideas for small changes which are uncontroversial, and which are very
unlikely to annoy other users and/or harm the quality of our software. For
everything else, you are exptected to provide evidence that the idea will be
beneficial for many users, which is impossible to do here at bugs.kde.org.
Discussing it with other users and/or the usability team is necessary.

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