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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Feb 3, 2011 20:41 UTC (Thu) by jmitchel (guest, #11611)In reply to: Quotes of the week by iabervon Parent article: Quotes of the week
Sure... gconf. When I was young and never left the house, I could be bothered to figure out what random incantations I needed to make things work, or just ignore the problems. Back then I had Linux on everything. Now I just want my computers to work, for features I counted on last year to stay where I found them, etc...
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Quotes of the week Posted Feb 3, 2011 21:27 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
If you want nothing to ever change, then just never upgrade anything. I know someone who is still running RH6 on a 10-year-old machine for just that reason. :)
On MacOSX there is almost a whole industry devoted to making fancy GUIs to expose hidden preferences only available from command-line options. That seems like a pretty sensible way to do things: keep the default GUI simple, and if someone wants some advanced feature, let them either use the commandline or download an advanced-gui to do it for them.
Quotes of the week Posted Feb 4, 2011 5:32 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Well I still prefer if developers try to build a GUI that can do both. Sure, it's more work, sure it is harder - but if you succeed you got really a superior product. Some applications manage to do this - a great example is gwenview 4.x, which is 1000 times simpler than its 3.x version but has actually MORE features. It's possible ;-)
Something like GConf is just an abomination, imho. KDE has something like that kconfigeditor I believe - blegh. I must say I like recent ideas to build in search in configuration interfaces, let them be build dynamically etc - that might be very helpful.
Finally, why install a separate app or tool if you could have an advanced button in a normal gui hiding the complexity but having it available for those who need it?
Quotes of the week Posted Feb 4, 2011 11:49 UTC (Fri) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link] Something like GConf is just an abomination, imho. KDE has something like that kconfigeditor I believe - blegh. I must say I like recent ideas to build in search in configuration interfaces, let them be build dynamically etc - that might be very helpful. Have you used gconf-editor recently? I find it's a decently discoverable GUI for so-called "hidden" preferences. Unlike Windows RegEdit it even explains what every switch does and which possible values it has. IMHO this is equivalent of having an "Advanced" button in every GUI. They are just all kept in a central place. Of course I don't know whether the old gconf-editor will be ported to the new dconf world. But I suppose it will get written if there is a demand.
Quotes of the week Posted Feb 4, 2011 12:39 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
dconf-editor already exists.
Quotes of the week Posted Feb 4, 2011 13:21 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
I wonder why anyone would create a KDE application which starts with a g. ;-)
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