On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 12:32 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 09:20 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > This is an insanely awesome idea, and I just wanted to reply so people > > will see it twice, and remember it, and maybe something positive will > > come out of the fiftieth incarnation of this silly argument. :) > > Unfortunately even this will not be representative -- it's fairly well > known that the vast majority of users will NOT bother to change the > defaults, they will only like or dislike them. > > If you are of the opinion that "who cares, you can flip a setting" you > have no idea how users function. > > If we want to be successful (especially with non-technical users > migrating from other OSes), the most important point is to not change > from expected behavior unless we have OVERWHELMING reason to do so. > > Otherwise we confuse users and make them feel stupid. Nobody likes that, > and they will resent us for it. I still think it would be valuable data to have. Knowing what preferences people actively dislike enough to change is a useful piece of information, surely. -- adamw -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
