From: Josh S. <jo...@vi...> - 2004-03-18 20:37:56
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Ka-Hing Cheung wrote: >On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:10:06PM -0800, Josh Steiner wrote: > > >>because for some reason all of a sudden preference bloat is being cited >>as some holy grail of the project, when a cursory glance at the >>preference dialog shows that this is obviously not a big concern 99% of >>the time. when you arbirarily cite "preference bloat" when you have >>other bizarre individual taste options like "show numbers in groups", >>"automatically expand contacts", "dim idle buddies", "display remote >>nicknames..." ... so why are you guys being so stubborn about it now? >> >> > >Because: > >1) some of the above preferences are actually useful, Christian explained why >"display remote nickname" is useful in an earlier email. "Dim idle buddies" may >be a useful preference if a person's theme's color is close to gray (Does gaim >actually ask GTK for the disabled color?), "automatically expand contants" can >be useful for people who want to have quick access to buddies in a contact, but >IMO it's not implemented as useful as it could be (like the ability to drag >a buddy into an autoexpanded contact). > > *exactly* my point. i couldn't have said it better. these preferences are ALL niche preferences that have real use to some people in some siturations, but the VAST majority of users will never touch them. If you don't think disabling these popups is a very useful one for a large number of users you havn't been paying much attention. If there is room for this class of preferences, the "can't add this pref because of dialog bloat" arument is moot. -- ________________________________________________________________ live experimental electronic music -- http://bluevitriol.com independent u.s. drum'n'bass -- http://vitriolix.com |