https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398618
User sh@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398618#c6
--- Comment #6 from Stefan Hundhammer 2008-06-12 03:56:02 MDT ---
There is also more to it:
This kind of thing is what is known as "creeping featuritis". Somebody comes up
with an idea he thinks it's great. He thinks it can be done "if only you do
this and that". But of course all features come with a cost. The cost of
implementing it is the smallest part; much more expensive are the maintenance
and debugging cost because of increased number of code paths, more potential
for problems, in some cases (not here) also impact on performance. And of
course there is increasing code bloat with each new thing added, which becomes
a problem unto itself after a while.
So each new feature has to be weighed in terms of benefit (which also includes
how many users benefit from that feature) versus expected potential for
problems and overall maintenance cost (each line of code needs to be revisited
every once in a while).
If only a very small number of users would want to have a feature, that benefit
is very small, yet the cost for maintenance, debugging, and potential for
problems is the same as for features wanted by a larger part of the user base.
Coming back to the concrete issue addressed in this bug / enhancement report, I
expect a very small number of users who will go through the trouble of making
their own icons. Realistically, nobody tried any customizing with the stuff
that is already there to customize - since years.
If our user base decides the icons are bad and maybe even some community icon
designer comes up with a better set, we should replace them for all users
(there is another open bug about that in which you are CC'ed).
But making those icons configurable makes no sense whatsoever to me.
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