Hi George/Ron, On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:23 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:33 -0500, George Reeke wrote: > > Dear list, > > One person's "not useful" is another person's "essential." The answer > > is to make the toolbar configurable, as I have requested in an earlier > > posting and have filed on the official feature-request list. > > Developers: I hope you are listening. I am one of those who > > consider "Move" and "Copy" essential, but would gladly get rid of > > those unlabelled buttons like the one that looks like a box of > > Kleenex that does who-knows-what.
Thanks a lot for the inputs. For all the research that goes into deciding the most user-friendly GUI - at the end of it - there are always controversies as to which way is the best. And am afraid, there is nothing like the best way. So restating what you just said - What you like i might not and what i like you need not. So its a perfect catch-22 situation, and am sure when the UI team made a decision and suggested the would surely have made a calculated decision. > > Exactly. > > Those of us who have server-side filtering have absolutely *no* > need for the Junk buttons. > > People gripe about GNOME being dumbed down. I disagree, since the > DE should fade into the background. OTOH, *applications* should > remain feature-rich and configurable. Yes. Agreed. GNOME (or for that matter any FOSS) is all about flexibility and choice and always will be. The development team always tries to balance between a good UI usability/user preferences/development constraints. We are always trying to give what seems a perfect balance. Am not just trying to make a politically correct statement here. Am trying to make a point that UI decisions are difficult to make. And when a decision is made, there are bound to me inconsistencies, but the decision is largely based on a sort of consensus. And this is not a days work, the UI will forever keep going thru changes and modifications, as there is nothing like *the perfect UI*. Thanks for your inputs. Me (and the rest of the development team) are open for suggestions. A constructive discussion/suggestion helps everybody. Hope i made my point clear. Cheers, partha _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
