Interesting thread on Gnome's limited useability
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Hi Folks, Slashdot pointed to an interesting thread on osdl about Gnome's developers being in favor of limiting functionality of a desktop to help users not get "confused". Linus chimes in and a vigourous discussion ensues. This is part of the post that kicked off the discussion:
Today I talked with Frederic Crozat, GNOME packager/maintainer and desktop developer here at Mandriva, and David Barth, vice president for engineering, about the development of the printing dialogs in GNOME, Firefox, and Thunderbird.
Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally not listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing than useful to the user.
Here's the link to the first posting. Foul Language Warning! May not be appropriate to read to small children or at work. http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000389.html Regards, Lew Wolfgang
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