Was my mail cut in the middle? On 9/27/07, Waldemar Kornewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, (resending... why do mails not get to the ML, automatically?) > > On 9/27/07, Dominik Wagenfuehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS: And yes, I know that you can deactivate Compiz with a few clicks, > > but why do not let the user decide? > > Even without that question the user can still decide: Just deactivate Compiz. > ;) > > But you already mentioned the main reason yourself: Most users are > happy with Compiz being enabled. Do you want to annoy all of them with > a question just to make a minority of users happy? With that reasoning > we could easily expand this to 1000 questions, letting the user choose > everything... > > Contrary to what some people make us belive, many consumers don't even > want to have a lot of choice in *all* situations of their life (there > have been studies on the negative psychological effects of too much > choice in our modern world). The stereotypical view "choice = good, no > choice = bad" is not as black&white as many people seem to believe. > There is something between "lots of choice" and "no choice" and, as > you said, most people prefer a shiny interface over a boring one. In > some countries (esp. the USA) the ridiculous equation "choice = > freedom" has emerged (and sometimes basically "enslaved" us), but it's > too simple to capture the real meaning behind it which is something > similar to: "freedom+happyness" means to have the *possibility* to > choose and then get what you want. > > From a different point of view, "freedom" means the freedom to *NOT* > have to choose and not be bothered with choice unless we choose to > have choice (I hope this makes it clear that the issue is more complex > than some might think ;). > > In this case, this is only guaranteed if you don't ask the user and > let those who want to disable Compiz just do that. > > I hope this will some day become a philosophy in the open-source world > (it's only a small, but important step towards better usability). > Ideally, we'd only be presented with *essential* choice and then have > something like a search interface for getting a list of options for > *anything* when we want that choice. > > Regards, > Waldemar Kornewald
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