MCBastos wrote, On 19/03/2013 00:52:
Interesting post about preference dialogs:
<http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill>
Food for thought. That was about Firefox, but Seamonkey has probably
even more options exposed through the main preferences interface. Are
there some of them that should be hidden because they do more harm than
good?
I used to work under the assumption that Seamonkey is mostly used by
power-users who use it exactly for those exposed features, but recently
posted statistics show a large drop of SM usage on weekends --
suggesting those users use SM only at work, and something else at home.
That is, they don't use SM by choice, but because it's company policy.
Those groups of users would benefit from a streamlined, idiot-proofed
preferences system.
I agree with you.
An example of the huge list of option to be positionned:
I hate tabs - and it would be very nice to have an option that says "[ ]
use tabs"
If that box is unchecked, all other tab options should be disabled and
greyed.
But as usual - developpers are geeks and works on want they feel
interesting instead of what we feel interesting and useful.
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