solution?

Scott angrykeyboarder at angrykeyboarder.com
Sat Dec 17 14:36:29 GMT 2005


Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <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
> 

GNOME still has strangely ignored some pretty *basic* newbie-friendly 
stuff as I've pointed out here: 
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171048&cid=14261103

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