On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:53:05PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:40:21PM +0300, Martin-�ric Racine wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > > > The point is to hide features that only power-users will use. Let me > > > > know when you see someone on a Mac or Windows using tab completion, > > > > right? ;) > > > > > > All Windows boxes I have used were setup to enable tab completion. > > > Heck, the trick was shown to me by an MSCE college at the previous job > > > and is dead easy. One Windows registry key to change and bingo. > > > > Eh, was that meant to be funny? If you change registry keys in order to > > configure stuff, you qualify for being a 'Windows power user' I guess. > > Because you have to modify a reistry key to enable it, doesn't mean that > you have to be a power user to enable it.
Exactly. By that logic, every time anyone on this list answers someone's problem by saying "just use gconf-editor and change the key" they are admiting that GNOME went from user-friendly defaults in 2.2 back to "look ma, everything tweakable" mentality of 1.4. I really don't think that's such a good thing. -- Martin-�ric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/
