solution?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Michael Shigorin">

> Maybe someone tells the GNOME usability kids the magic keywords "user
> level"?

You may wish to go back and look at the failures of user levels in projects
such as Sawfish and Nautilus. It merely serves to increase the combinatorial
explosion of preference overload. We've discussed it. We've tried it. It did
not succeed.

Plus there's a lot of weighty academic material written on this issue, which
we haven't ignored.

- Jeff

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