> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Mouawad [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 15:27
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Proposal for some changes in Menus
>
> Either we spend time on fixing it but IMO it is not worth the investment.
>
Is the issue really that bad?
> I think having features that "partially work" in JMeter is not good for the
> product reputation.
>
It's far better to have something janky that users might have a chance of
finding when they need it.
And "need" isn't an exaggeration: Just yesterday, I was helping a colleague
debug something with JMeter and the font rendering was so bad, it was basically
unreadable; we couldn't even distinguish between lower- and upper-case "i"
until I switched LAF to something else.
...granted, X forwarding to a Windows workstation isn't a COMMON scenario, but
it was a real problem that I would NOT have solved if I had to dig into a
config file and change some option that may or may not even be documented then
restart the application.
> You will still be able to through properties.
>
Please, no, properties seriously suck. They're about as opaque as you can
possibly get for configuring a GUI application. They're basically a
non-mechanism from a user standpoint.
This isn't to say it's not a problem-- I kept having to change the LAF when we
went to a different sampler yesterday, because it doesn't update everything, so
I know the problems you mentioned and they really don't lend a polished feel to
the option.
It's just, burying things in properties is a sure way to ensure the options
never even get used at all.
Regards,
Wyatt
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