On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:37 -0300, Greg Knaddison wrote:
On Nov 12, 2007 10:13 AM, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> wrote:
Also Colin, remove the length settings, or make that hidden somewhere. That's a kind of setting I forgot: the "please don't fail" option.
By Colin I assume you mean Greg ;)
Err .. yes, now I'm confused. Sorry for that Greg :)
I was asking for feedback on an idea and providing an example to help people understand the idea.
To me, that was a good example where clutter can be trimmed off. No offense to you Greg, removing options isn't an easy task, but once it's done it makes life easy for users.
Earnie responded to the idea and said:
I think the variable editor idea is a bit on the dangerous side. Too prone to errors for the majority of those using it (I want to say 75% but I have no statistics). While good experienced administrators could benefit from it; the inexperienced may well flood the lists.
I agree, but the target user of the variable editor is an advanced admin. The goal is to only put options there that are both uncommonly changed and useful only to admin users. It is how Firefox (one of the few OSS UI Simplicity success stories) balances this problem.
On one hand it could be a good way of hinding useless but mandatory settings, but on the other hand care should be taken for that "variables editor" not to become a dumping ground. Xav