On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:09:09PM +0000, Thomas Winwood wrote: > GNOME has the image in the Linux community of being simplistic or > featureless due to its preference not to add an option for everything > under the sun. Why does GNOME not use an Advanced button to hide pickier > settings keeping the regular user's experience the clean GNOME look > which is desired?
That image is of rather no importance in light of the target audience. "Pickier" settings are available via gconf-editor. Advanced buttons or tabs are no good, because that label is so generic, the user doesn't know what to expect. Not to forget the existance of such a place is an invation to cram stuff into it. Allthough ... maybe KDE is the 'Advanced' button of GNOME ;) Cheers, Thorsten Wilms _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
