Michael: On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 11:54, Michael Torrie wrote: > Not to be negative, but I'm starting to agree with Owen Pennington on > the preferences thing. See http://pobox.com/~hp/free-software-ui.html >
Good article. > To summarize, if it needs a preference, then it may be a bad design in > the first place. I'm not sure this is a black and white issue, It's absolutely not. Obviously, there is a balance to be struck between forcing all of my favorite features down the users' collective throats, and letting the users have every feature under the sun. > but > these minor things deserve our attention as we strive to create quality > software (things are generally looking good. We do have good quality > software and gtk gives us tools to do this). > > In light of this article, I'd say that going with gtkhtml (or if it's a > gnome application the gnome-help stuff) is better than forcing the user > to configure a browser. > In this case, I think you are more right than wrong, although I am not sure gtkhtml is the right solution. I will leave the preference out, but I am still more inclined to use a browser. I think I will: * Look for mozilla first * Look for netscape second * Issue error third Done and done. Thanks everyone for the discussion. Neil _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
