[telepathy] [Bug 318660] make height of the input text box configurable

[Dimitar Pashov]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318660

--- Comment #16 from Dimitar Pashov <dpashov01 at qub.ac.uk> ---
On the http://community.kde.org/KTp/Usability . If you claim this is an actual
guidance then I will comment. It is extreme stereotyping and quite misogynistic
that it is offensive indeed. I hope the author does realise there is huge
spectrum of personalities. There isn't even a single axis as these 2 points may
suggest. It ignores the significant number of intelligent and curious users who
like to make their environment comfortable.

Let me introduce you to Lena. An intelligent and curious person whose job is a
designer and who likes to customise her desktop to her liking. The 'advanced'
tab in the KDE settings lets her make her desktop truly hers. Discovering a new
program allowing her to call friends on gtalk and facebook from a single place,
makes her quite enthusiastic. The enthusiasm however does not last long after
she realises the colours and proportions are not customisable.  She does not
want to deal with people who thought noone would like to change the colours and
much less with people who thought that they shall not allow people who want to
change the colours. Her rationale being that if the developers followed the
code of conduct and a well designed usability setup they would have certainly
had these settings available in some intuitive way or at least in the
'advanced' tab.

To continue the soap opera: Leonard meets Lena through a common friend and is
stunned.... Penny is initially kind of happy not to receive Leonard's spam....
until she sees the fancy coloured iChat of one of her fiends. 

Martin, I hope you recognise the bias in your opinion and remove it so we can
have a rational discussion.

I do not dictate how you shall develop but only point out faults with your
justification. What do you think the normal user Lena will think of people who
think everyone shall wear the same clothes and even go further by trying to
justify it with some artificial exaggerated stereotypes? 

Lets not make things personal but concentrate on the facts. I am glad you
realise you are getting more biased and cloudy, and I would very much
appreciate if you come back to reason. The arguments are laid out. There is no
technical difficulty to put the features. The setting need not be shown to
Penny so whether she cares about them of not is irrelevant. She will not be
overwhelmed by the settings because she will not see them but when she becomes
curious about them she will find them. Lena will likely not raise voice when
there are no settings but instead may simply not use the program. Why loose a
potential contributor as her over such a silly thing?

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