KDE (vs GNOME)

Gábor Lehel illissius at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 20:54:39 GMT 2005


On 11/10/05, Martin Koller <m.koller at surfeu.at> wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:04, Vinay Khaitan wrote:
> > The reason is that,  Options and expertness has no direct necessary
> > correlation, whereas "need" has more closer relations with expected
> > Options. and because of diverse world, needs of the users varies very much
> > even for novice users.
> > So hiding options according to "expertness" is bad.
>
> Exactly.
> I also think that some options shall be moved from the main area in the
> configuration dialog to a sub-level dialog section, but "advanced" is the
> wrong word for those options.
>
> We should better use something like "rarely used options", which describes why
> those option have been put in a second level, and this has absolutely nothing
> to do with the skill of the user!
>
> And it reflects the reality: Some options are not needed for doing the main
> tasks, but are here to fine-tune some aspects of a program (maybe "fine tune"
> might also be another good word for such a sub-section in a dialog).

"Details"? :)

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