It's an internal app for "power users"...and its been a struggle to reduce it 
so far.
I've been told that the current options need to stay put....so no reducing for 
the moment.

...but I don't like it either...

Thanks,
j

On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> 
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Davie wrote:
> 
>> Can I ask what your app is?  I find it hard to believe that your user really 
>> needs to set 42 boolean flags.  There must surely a better way to think 
>> about the configuration.
> 
> Agreed. If Apple’s UI designers were looking at your app they’d strike out 
> 90% of those checkboxes immediately. (In my experience they always try to 
> limit an app to fewer prefs than it actually needs, and then the engineering 
> team and/or end-users fight back, and it ends up a decent compromise.)
> 
> —Jens

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