open tasks, jobs, unmaintained stuff, etc.

Navindra Umanee navindra at cs.mcgill.ca
Fri Mar 5 18:57:24 GMT 2004


Zack Rusin <zack at kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2004 13:20, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Friday 05 March 2004 18:18, Zack Rusin wrote:
> > > The thing is that we need documentation for the
> > > configuration options in order to start retiring a lot of advanced
> > > options which power users want but which confuse the hell out of
> > > normal users.
> >
> > I hope "retiring" really means "hiding behind 'Advanced' buttons".
> 
> No, it means removing them along the 'advanced' buttons which are 
> plugging all dialogs. (oh, and make sure you read my email carefully 
> and not quote me out of context).

So this would be like telling advanced users to use the KDE equivalent
of gconf-editor (GNOME) or regedit (Windows) for advanced options?
Just trying to get a clarification here, because I honestly don't
think that would be a good idea.

Cheers,
Navin.




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