On Sun February 26 2006 17:12, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 16:55 -0500, Rob wrote:
> > I hope this isn't the design philosophy for GNOME apps
> > nowadays.... "put minimal configurability into the app and
> > let the power users install the equivalent of regedit."
>
> Unfortunately it is. The Gnome developers get very angry if
> you compare it to the Windows registry "because ours is XML
> rather than a binary blob" - which confuses bad DESIGN with
> bad IMPLEMENTATION.
Yeah, I only run Windows apps under Wine, which saves the
registry as a set of text files rather than a binary blob, and
it's still annoying to have to hack the registry. Geez, guys,
it won't kill your newbie target audience to have an "advanced"
button here and there.
Rob
Received on Mon Feb 27 04:15:05 2006
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