On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 09:41 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 23:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 22:13 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > > Perhaps a comment along the lines of "For other options use 'gsettings' > > from the Shell" would at least give a hint. > I never understood the need to remove those options, I also noticed > multiple users asking for them, especially because those all are common > options, which each sane mail client should have accessible in UI, not > through "registry" (would you imagine any commercial application asking > users to open "registry" to tweak such fundamental settings?). > That said, I do not agree with "space saving",
It makes perfect sense. Especially with more users actually choosing [for some bizarre completely incomprehensible reason; probably just because it is "cool"] to use devices with smaller displays and [hopelessly] inferior input methods. It is just something application have to adapt to. And I've watched end users confronted with massive and complex preference and configuration dialogs - it *DOES* turn them off / away. The reaction is frequently almost visceral. Creating the sense "Wow, that is so complicated" is *** BAD *** *** BAD *** *** BAD ***. > the cost of it is too > high, too hard configurability, which is the thing I used to like on > Gnome (the current trend makes configurability harder and harder, > sadly). Oh, get over it. You as a power user have gsettings [and gconf-editor / dconf-editor], and you have wrappers around like gnome-tweak-tool. Configurability did not and will not go aware; there is no resistance to configurability, there is just a resistance to byzantine dialogs with numerous tabs, and sub-tabs, and sub-dialogs, with tabs, and sub-tabs... I'll admit having an "Advanced..." button hidden somewhere in the configuration dialog would be nice - but someone would have to write and maintain that code. Perhaps options could be provided via a Plugin? But I don't know if it is possible to develop a plugin in anything other than C. There was talk about Mono/C# plugins, but nobody has touched that in years. I haven't found an example of a plugin in Python - I'd be all over that.
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