On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 02:54:48PM +0000, Mo McRoberts wrote: > On 2010-01-24 05:02:11 +0000, Caio Chassot said: > >> My point is: while we can eschew overly dumbing down the UI to make >> it perfectly understandable to your mom on first use, we should >> avoid justifying bad decisions with "we're power users, we can deal, >> configure the hell out of it, until it actually works". Mutt users >> who love it but mourn the days lost to configuring it will agree >> with me here. >> >> This is a Mac app (damn it) after all. > > I agree with this completely. I hate the ???power users have the ability > to configure the hell out of everything??? mentality, because it assumes > "ability" is matched with equal amounts of "time", which is rarely true.
I don't think it's a problem that it can be heavily configured as long as you don't have to do it. If the defaults are good and the most common configuration details are easy to find and understand I don't mind that those of us that want to do more can to that in case we want to. Marcus
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