Gnome Article on UI Design on /.

[Thomas Zander]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:05:53AM -0700, Neil Stevens wrote:
> 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?

The reverse poses a more interesting question; what good is configurability when
the sheer amount of options leads to uses not finding the config options they 
want?

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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