Hi,
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:31, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:46, Andrew Cowie wrote: > > 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. > > Amen Brother and Hallelujah! > > Dumbing down the interface to satisfy the novice, while sacrificing > advanced functionality and flexibility for everyone else is *exactly* > what's *wrong* with Windows. If Gnome (and by extension, Evolution) Whoa, I wish people would quit using the "dumbing down" comment when describing features. A more appropriate comment is "finding the 20% of the features that 80% of the people use," Making a "dumb" comment like that is condescending to those that do not or may not want to know more. I was a 15 year Mac user at one time (now Linux for three years) because I didn't want to learn any more and the Mac did what I needed it to do, but now that I've been using Linux I'm grateful that I have the power not only to do the simple stuff at the GUI, but the power is underneath if I so choose. So, while it may be difficult to determine what the 20% of the featurea are, at least consider the idea/concept of "most requested" feature rather than "dumbing down" the features. Thanks. BTW, Apple seems to be doing a good job of making things simple for novice users and keeping the power available for power users. ;-) > continues to follow the same path, it won't be any more appealing than > Windows/Outlook (or KDE/Kmail for that matter). Please, evolution > developers, don't follow this path. It leads to darkness... > > Cheers! Kevin -- Kevin Cullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
