On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Stéphane Bisinger <
stephane.bisin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/2/1 Youness Alaoui <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net>:
> > The reason why I want it to be a skin option instead of a user option is
> > simply to avoid having too many options... a while ago (a few years
> already)
> > we had decided that if we ever need to add a new option, we would remove
> one
> > too.. that's why we didn't have a lot of options added to the preferences
> > window, and we try to avoid adding new options as much as possible.. the
> > users are already completely lost with all the options we have, so it's
> > bad...
>
> The options are indeed too many, on the "advanced" tab at least.
> Couldn't you add some way to hide advanced options in each tab so that
> by default users only see basic options, but if they want the can also
> have some more options? I can't remember where I saw something like
> that, but the idea is that each tab has very few options and then a
> separator with a button to show the advanced options only if the user
> wishes to. It's just a possible idea to mainly reduce the visible
> options (and not an excuse to add more - probably useless - tabs).
yeah, I know what you mean and I agree, unfortunately, noone is here with
enough free time and dedication and motivation and blablabla to do it..
that's an idea I had for a while, and actually, there was a start of a
rewrite for a completely new preferences window that would look much better,
but it was never completed.. thre was a huge thread about this a few years
ago where we had a good design on how to make the new prefs window more user
friendly and still give a full customization power to the user....
>
> With my 1,6 eurocents we are at about 6 cents, we may soon be able to
> buy us a chewing gum ;)
How are we going to split it? :p
>
>
> --
> Stéphane
>
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