First: The problem of having a hard time finding options. In the simple scheme they will theoretically be just as hard to find, they're just harder to find in a shorter list on the page they're on.
Second: You don't know they're hidden or not until you switch to advanced (unless you do the gray-out thing, in which case you lose all benefit of simplification entirely, as you've just got all the options there, with some being unchangeable, which really is no different from a user choosing not to change them.)
I think a Simple/Advanced scheme has absolutely nothing to offer without rather drastic menu reorganization in the "Simple" schema, and then, if there's even one option a user likes to change not under Simple, they won't use it. I don't think it's worth the code.
On 8/23/06, Malcolm Tyrrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My point is, that when you have the simple view, and turn on advanced, a
> bunch of settings just appeared, and you have no idea which, or where
> they are. This makes it, in my eyes, more confusing than simply always
> having all options available.
Another option is having options grayed out if you're in Simple mode.
Malx.
