Re: [Usability] "Advanced" button?



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Alan Horkan

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Kalle Vahlman wrote:

Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:53:15 +0200
From: Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: zuh@xxxxxx
To: usability@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Usability] "Advanced" button?

On 2/16/06, Alan Horkan <horkana@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Thomas Winwood wrote:
It is true that in the balance between simplicity Gnome has gone for
simplicity first and only now are people really starting to look at
ways to add back the flexibility without making a horrible mess.

Really? I thought it was always about making everything work so that
it was not _necessary_ to tweak it, which of course doesn't mean that
people would not _want_ to tweak it.

Cannot please everyone. There will always be a few who will want to tweak
things but as you say would should able to set thing so most users never
need to.

- Alan

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