On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:09:37PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:04:21AM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > But is it such a big deal to
> > implement three different detail level modes just for the single-bar
> > interface? I doubt it's much code.
> 
> It might be easy to implement, but it just seems like overkill to have
> three interfaces to something that is a relatively small part of the
> overall Freenet experience.  I can't think of any software which 
> provides more than a "Standard" and "Detailed" view of anything, and I 
> don't think there is anything special here which justifies a third level 
> of detail.
> 
> I would prefer to have two, a dead-simple one, with absolutely nothing 
> there that a newbie can't easily understand (after reading a key), and a 
> detailed one, with as much information as Bombe cares to provide.
But one of the advantages of the smaller interface is that it's smaller.
Not just that it's idiot-proof. Hence the desire to have small-simple,
small-detailed, and large-detailed (large-simple is pointless, maybe we
should have large-very-detailed though :)).
> 
> Ian.
> 
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