Re: [Usability] "Advanced" button?


--- Alexey Rusakov <ktirf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
On Feb 17, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Alexey Rusakov wrote:

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?

What for? I believe this button is unneeded for a
an "ordinary user",
and "unordinary users" can use gconf-editor
anyway.
...

Oh, for goodness sake. Arguing whether an
"Advanced..." button is bad
is like arguing whether ozone is bad. It depends
where it is
In GNOME dialogs
and what it's doing.
Shows "pickier settings", as described above.

I suggested a simple way of doing this a few weeks
ago: have the button (whatever it's labelled) open
GConf at the right node for the prefs it was clicked
in.

Though it sounds perverse, you could have a master
GConf setting "show GConf link in prefs dialogs"
that's off by default...



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