Hi!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Silverstone</b> <<a href="mailto:dsilvers@digital-scurf.org">dsilvers@digital-scurf.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>My father has been using Ubuntu since Warty and has some concerns about<br>proposed UI changes for dapper. He is 77, nearly 78, and demonstrates an<br>important principle we'd potentially be breaking. That of the principle
<br>of least surprise.<br><br>I'm not going to say whether or not I agree with his complaints, or the<br>rationale for changing things the way he's not happy with; but I was<br>asked to pass on his comments and I am thus doing so.
<br><br>D.<br><br>--<br>Daniel
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Id: 2BC8 4016 2068 7895<br><br><br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Norman Silverstone <<a href="mailto:norman@littletank.org">norman@littletank.org</a>><br>To: Daniel Silverstone <<a href="mailto:dsilvers@digital-scurf.org">
dsilvers@digital-scurf.org</a>><br>Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:56:30 +0000<br>Subject: dapper<br>I am sending this to you because I am not certain how to make my views<br>available to those who decide. I think the suggestion to remove scanner
<br>access from the Graphics menu as a separate item and make it only<br>available via Gimp is not a good idea. Scanning documents etc is not<br>necessarily associated with graphic manipulation. I also cannot<br>understand the argument for removing floppy formatting from the menu
<br>list.<br><br>I apologise for bothering you but I would be obliged if you could make<br>my views known to those who have requested them.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Dad<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all">I completely agree with you. By the
way you can check out the MenusRevisited spec
(<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenusRevisited">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenusRevisited</a>). In comments section there are
a lot of good arguments against proposed changes. <br>
<br>
What i think is that we should clean up System Tools/Administration/Preferences a bit, but DON'T hide anything from the user.<br>
<br>-- <br>Sandis