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GNOME and the way forwardGNOME and the way forwardPosted Aug 22, 2005 19:19 UTC (Mon) by utoddl (subscriber, #1232)In reply to: GNOME and the way forward by coulamac Parent article: GNOME and the way forward Lastly, making everything configurable-- even with hidden configuration options-- comes at a cost to the developers and can make the software unusable. There was a passage in the Amiga User Interface Styleguide (or something like that -- it's been a while since I pulled it out) that gave what I thought was pretty good advice: Don't create a user option just because you were unable to make a design decision.(or something like that). Clearly some things need to be configurable by users, but not everything. And as you point out, some unanticipated configurations may prove unstable.
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