#1 UI profiles

[Anonymous]

> > Support of user modes or profiles (beginner/expert) in the middle
> > layer might also be crucial for wide spread use. The most simple
> > approach is maybe if a front-end requests the configuration for a
> > "beginner" it will only be given the part of the
> > configuration-representation and logic labeled as "settings needed
> > even from beginners". The rest is set to default values.
>
> That would be a good way to do it. Each configuration directive could have a "difficulty
> rating" of some sort.

I think it is commonly said that only two UI profiles easy and full or beginner/expert are generally needed. More might do more harm than good.

-Peter

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Very good reference:

http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html