GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition [LWN.net]

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 13, 2005 21:43 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
In reply to: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition by hmh
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

>> Why don't you place the so-called advanced functionality behind an Advanced button

yuck!

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GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 15, 2005 0:37 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Please don't do "Advanced" tabs. If you're looking for a feature, you have to look twice, in the relevant tab and in "Advanced". It's like record stores that have a separate "Alternative" section. You have to look twice to see if they're out of something.

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 15, 2005 7:25 UTC (Thu) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256) [Link]

Just have one option somewhere near the top that enables the "Advanced" (more options) throughout all configuration dialogs and widgets.

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 15, 2005 10:09 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Apparently this `confuses the users', too. (Well, that's what I was told when they took it out of Nautilus, along with every feature of that program that I actually used it for.)

Perhaps the GNOME project should change the expansion of its acronym: with the near-demise of Bonobo the amount of `network object model' in there is minimal anyway. Given the GNOME attitude (`on crack' and dismissive contempt) to suggestions that perhaps not all features that the program's maintainer doesn't use are useless, I suggest the recursive acronym `GNOME Now for Obtuse Morons Exclusively'. It's not true, but at times it seems to be their goal :(

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 15, 2005 7:53 UTC (Thu) by komarek (subscriber, #7295) [Link]

And please, don't call it "Advanced". It's not advanced. Perhaps it is rarely used, or obscure. But emacs key bindings are not any more advanced then remapping ctrl-c (ascii ETX, which we all learned was used to abort a program) to "copy". The same thing goes for hundreds of other options that devs like Havoc Pennington don't like to expose.

-Paul Komarek