Le 22 mars 07 à 00:11, Günther Noack a écrit :
Hi!
Am 21.03.2007 um 21:12 schrieb Yen-Ju Chen:
We are on OSNew:
http://osnews.com/story.php/17528/Install-Guide-Etoile
Wow, cool. We got lots of good feedback there. :-)
When I tried the Google themes today, a friend told me that he
heard an average of 30% of computer worktime is spent on
configuring one's user environment instead of doing actual work.
The numbers may be exaggerated and I have no idea if this is really
from an actual statistic, but the idea behind it is clear and seems
very reasonable to me; how is a user supposed to do work when the
environment invites him to play around so much?
Maybe we shouldn't allow users to change too much on the user
environment using Etoiles graphical applications. It's wonderful
that AZDock is so modular as you say, but letting the user change
the dock application should not be officially supported. If the
Etoile project maintains multiple different dock implementations,
only half of the time can be spent on each of them, which will
result in lower quality. I'd prefer having a single reliable dock
application. (One may ask why I still consider the dock modularity
as important then. If Etoile is really being deployed on lower-
resolution platforms like personal digital assistants one day,
we'll still have the possibility to write a new dock if the old one
doesn't fit into the usage concepts on that platform.)
These ideas do of course conflict with the demands of power users
like "shapeshifter" in the OSNews comments, who seems to want to
customize everything. Looking at our configuration applications and
the slow progress on the SystemConfig framework, I must conclude we
probably don't have the manpower to satisfy the needs of this type
of user. ;-)
I myself used to reconfigure lots of keyboard shortcuts once. I
believe that as long as they are properly documented somewhere, you
can get used to every environment. Things get even easier when the
environment tries to stick to common keyboard shortcuts, which are
used in other applications as well. Most decent applications do
this. I think that in the long term, time spent on finding very
good and "familiar" default settings for everything is way better
spent than time spent on writing configuration dialogs.
-Günther
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