Gnome Article on UI Design on /.

[Neil Stevens]

On Monday April 22, 2002 09:39, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:56:24AM -0700, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Sunday April 21, 2002 05:43, Nick Papadonis wrote:
> > >   - You can't make EVERYONE happy with a design decision, however
> > > you can please most people and others can hack a configuration file
> > > for happiness.
> >
> > Hard to do that when we have people who complain at every new
> > configuration option and who try to reduce the configurability,
> > though.
>
> Why?
> not providing a config like he said seems to 'reduce the
> configurability' IMO. If you 'hack a configuration file' then that has
> nothing to do with the configurability. But a lot more with
> coding/checking overhead (since you have to check for it in the software
> anyway). The GUI (o.a. me) people will not complain about that!

You're right.  I mis-read the original reply.

So the question becomes:  What sense is a graphical environment that's only 
truly configurable with text tools?

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