On 13/10/11 18:29, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: [snip] I’ll end this discussion with a very nice read about free software interfaces (from 2002, mind you): http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html
"I find that if you're hard-core disciplined about having good defaults that Just Work instead of lazily adding preferences, that naturally leads the overall UI in the right direction. Issues come up via bugzilla or mailing lists or user testing, and you fix them in some way other than adding a preference, and this means you have to think about the right UI and the right way to fix problems. Basically, using preferences as a band-aid is the root of much UI evil. It's a big deal and a big change in direction for free software that GNOME has figured this out." – Havoc Pennington [/snip] Just a quick point to the point that what Just Works for one person Just Doesn't for another, Or, There's No True One Way. So please, PLEASE, don't assume that there's no need for options. I suspect my heavily tinkered KDE setup would not be to many people's tastes, but I find it the best environment to work in. _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
