Re: [Usability] "Advanced" button?

Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 14:12 +0300 schrieb Alexey Rusakov:
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.

(And, there's no such thing as an ordinary user.)
Ok, let's call them inexperienced and seasoned, respectively.

Without pointing out concrete issues where you felt really limited by
the current dialog options, we can only consider your email a rant,
which doesn't really help us to improve the situation.

--
Christian Neumair <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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