the point is that having the feature would be confusing to users and is an unnecessary feature to begin with.
not everything has to become a configuration preference. if it were this way, you'd never be able to find anything in the preferences dialog(s). it's unfortunate that a lot of people do not recognise this fact. there is a huge discussion about this on the GNOME Usability list. I think Havoc Pennington wrote up a document on it, I would refer you to it but don't recall the url. Jeff On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 18:46, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 05:24, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > it only ever makes sense to put the cursor at the bottom if you wanted > > to FORCE people into replying YOUR way (which not everyone agrees with) > > and if the only type of reply anyone EVER wanted to do was a summary > > reply to the whole message (which is clearly not the case). > > Uh guys, rather than arguing about the correct way to do it, why not > follow your thought to its logical conclusion? > > SOME people want it one way. SOME OTHER people want it a different way. > So add the power to the interface to choose between them. > > Flexibility is, after all, the hall mark of the Open world, and opposed > to the "though shalt only do it this proscribed way" which is what > pisses so many of us off about Outlook and friends. Outlook is great > software, but you can't *control* it! Please don't make Evolution like > that. > > I realize one doesn't just magically whip up a piece of UI. I also > realize that any feature wouldn't be implemented for a long time (I know > how release cycles work). But it WAS a valid feature request (even if > the poster cited a bogus RFC claiming it's necessity). Someone wants it, > there are two valid behaviours, and no good reason to choose between > them. > > Don't want to confuse novice users with additional configuration > options? [Yes, I know GNOME is trying VERY hard to make things simple] > Then pick an intelligent default but create an "advanced" mode or some > such where such options can be tweaked? > > The power under the hood is what brought so many of us to Unix; if we > can't control it, make it do what we want, then what's the point? We all > just accept that such control is not offered in the Windows world; but > to most users who have been around a while, the power of Unix is in it's > ability to be configured to our tastes. Open Source gives us the ability > to work with the code, yes, but we all know that hacking a particular > project is beyond most people [Evolution is, after all, the hardest > thing EVER to build :)] > > Unix is about letting people make choices. I should like to encourage > the Evolution developers to give choices to their users whenever > possible. > > Not a rant, just a feature request ;) > > Andrew -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
