On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Cyril Ferlicot D. <[email protected] > wrote:
> Can people just explain to my why we have so many big threads each time > a default settings is changed? > Law of triviality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality Because its natural to have personal preferences/opinions and easy to bike-shed about those. I'm as guilty as the next guy. btw, I'm in favour of the board making these sorts of executive decisions rather than voting. Sure if a vote was 90% against the dark theme it would seem strange to go against it, but what if it was only 51%. I don't imagine that result really smoothing community sentiment. Now what about 55% or 60%? Where you draw the line now becomes an executive decision. So sometimes its more efficient to just move than have continuous discussions. Also there may be a bigger picture to bring in more users/money (aka marketting) which we don't hear the details of. But people do need an opportunity to vent so the board are not blind to community sentiment. So just roll with it. cheers -ben > > I understand that some settings need a certain default value when it > come for discover-ability of a feature. But why so many noise for > feature that are totally taste dependent? The principle of settings is > that some people will like the default one and some will not like it. > That's the point. > > Why are people so afraid of settings? I have the impression that Pharo > has no setting system each time I see those threads. > > Neverless, I agree that we should have a way at the first launch of > Pharo on a computer to let the user define some common settings as > Squeak does. It's a really cool feature of most IDEs (like Intellij for > example). Probably too late for Pharo 6, but not for Pharo 7. > > I am just a little tired to see this many noise for things like that. > > -- > Cyril Ferlicot > https://ferlicot.fr > > http://www.synectique.eu > 2 rue Jacques Prévert 01, > 59650 Villeneuve d'ascq France > >
