On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Michael Pyne wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2010 18:46:15 Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Fri, 05.03.10 22:06, PCMan wrote: >> > I'm not against PolicyKit. It's design is clever and I kind of like >> > it, but people need to have choices. >> >> Do they really? > > The entire reason this list exists is because people apparently feel they need > to have choices. > > Very few things in computing are truly one-size-fits-all. Don't hammer a > square block into a round peg. Don't use a LGM-118A Peacekeeper when a simple > wrecking ball would do. Etc., etc., etc. > > Or in short: Yes, people will find they need choices, whether or not you think > they do. It would be better to still be able to nicely interoperate after > those people have made a different choice. >
I agree. Unfortunately, this hiding functionality "feature" has originated from our Gnome and is spread over other parts of Linux. It is a disease. This is not my word but Linus', and it continues via "If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it." Orcan _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
