https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52817
--- Comment #37 from billinghurst <[email protected]> --- (In reply to MZMcBride from comment #35) > (In reply to Amgine from comment #21) > > Sucks as UX. Do we really want every special page to be creating and > > maintaining its own interface for user preferences? > > We want sensible defaults and intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces. For most > users, there shouldn't be a need to customize the default search settings. > If many users are customizing their search settings, we're doing something > wrong. For the few users who want to customize their search preferences, > there's now a checkbox in the same place as search. This seems like a good > thing to me. Nobody has argued about sensible defaults, nor the ability for communities to be able to adjust and modify. I don't see how that introduction is relevant. > Because there's now an additional checkbox that controls per-user search > preferences, we can de-duplicate the listing at Special:Preferences, which > makes for a cleaner user preferences interface (increased signal, decreased > noise). This also seems like a good thing to me. In fact if you follow that logic, we are now cluttering up a search page with an option that is going to be used rarely or not at all, and maybe by a small subset of people ... Making visible an option that is probably used zero times by most user, and maybe once or two by a small number of users. That is perverse. > Perhaps a pointer from Special:Preferences to Special:Search would be > helpful, but I'm not sure it's needed and I'm not sure where it would > appropriately go. Or it could be '''at''' the search page that it says something the lines of "Save this criteria to be your default" and have a link to Special:Preferences. I have no specific issue with an improvement or option at Special:Search, my issue is that Preferences = Preferences and I expect to be able to go there and to be able to set my preferences for search. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
