Re: [Usability] "Advanced" button?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:09:09PM +0000, Thomas Winwood wrote:
GNOME has the image in the Linux community of being simplistic or
featureless due to its preference not to add an option for everything
under the sun. Why does GNOME not use an Advanced button to hide pickier
settings keeping the regular user's experience the clean GNOME look
which is desired?

That image is of rather no importance in light of the target
audience.

"Pickier" settings are available via gconf-editor.

Advanced buttons or tabs are no good, because that label is so generic,
the user doesn't know what to expect. Not to forget the existance of
such a place is an invation to cram stuff into it.

Allthough ... maybe KDE is the 'Advanced' button of GNOME ;)


Cheers,
Thorsten Wilms
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