How about we hide it in gconf or dconf or whatever it is and then document how to change it in a centralized location on our website as "tricks and features you don't know about" or whatever. The idea then is to generate a community place to go for these things. Then create a link in the appearances capplet that says something like "Can't find what you're looking for? Check out wiki.gnome.org!"
Then we get a number of advantages: 1) we can catch who do want these options and what to restore them and have an end state on where to go to. We could put in some rule that if you decide to remove a ui component that they will need to stick how to restore it the wiki or document in the wiki. 2) we now have a captured audience that the marketing team can create a community around that is outside the distro. Finally... I usually call William Jon McCann, Bill when he's not in ear shot. sri On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Iain <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Luca Ferretti <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > It was more: "please don't remove those settings from the UI until we > > have a different, proper place to put them". :) > > This is just a logical fallacy that says all options are equally > valid, the only thing wrong is where you put them > This has never been the thinking behind the gnome (2) UI and leads to > the abomination that is the "Advanced" tab[1] > and user interface's that become so bloated because you can never > remove any options lest someone somewhere found it a useful option. > > No matter what options a user is presented, someone, somewhere will > think one of them is useful. > To use your anecdotal evidence, would your friend have really cared if > when looking through the settings tab they hadn't found the option to > change the toolbar setting? > William's[2] rule of thumb that the options we present are the ones > that we encourage people to change is pretty much spot on > > iain > > [1] Which even members of KDE are now realising is an abomination. > [2] William Jon's? I never know how to properly address people who use > two names, sorry. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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