On 28 Nov 2012, at 16:11, Alan Cox <a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> If you look at say a modern digital TV - which is a product that
> notoriously has to deal with everyone from the totally tech clueless to
> the video nuts who want to hand adjust everything then it is all in the
> settings.
>
> Most of it you don't notice because there are usually options in the
> settiings that basically look like
>
> Audio Balance: Standard Clear Voice User Defined
>
> and only if someone goes and selects user defined does the page of
> configuration material actually show itself. That's good design because
> it is discoverable, it is easy to back away from and also because it
> means the user defined settings can be fiddled with and are not lost when
> you flip back to a safe default. Rather they are kept and flipping back
> to user defined goes back to them as left.
>
> Much of this stuff in Gnome IMHO belongs in settings in that same kind of
> way.
>
> My TV is insanely configurable, but while I personally don't fiddle with
> the configuration much it doesn't get in the way. At worst the user
> experience is a one off
>
> "I wonder what 'user defined' is
> click
> ooh not what I wanted
> click"
>
> and only while exploring the settings by choice
Your TV allows that:
http://prolost.com/blog/2011/3/28/your-new-tv-ruins-movies.html
I don't think we want to compare GNOME to TVs with awful UIs.
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