On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:37:16AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Users want to configure using a gui. That's a common misconception. Lots of users are perfectly ok with text configuration files, and even often like them more, because: - it's easier to find a file in a specific place than to find the configuration-application-of-the-day - it's easier to find what you want in it, especially when your setup is nonstandard in any slight way. Things hidden in the new tab of the day which appears only when you click on allow advanced in a dialog box coming from a menu can be quite frustrating. In other words, the interface part of a text configuration file is much harder to fuck up. - you can google using its contents - you often have useful comments in them, where the GUI equivalent requires a number of manipulations to access - you can grep a bunch of files to help finding where is the configuration concerning <x> - it's way easier to talk about it in email - you don't need to leave the keyboard for all your configuration and you can see all the configuration options on one screen Of course, that breaks down if your "text" file is actually computer-oriented xml crap with a randomly generated name hidden 3 levels down in a dot-directory. Debutant users don't want to configure, period. Advanced users want efficiency. Efficient GUI configuration tools are extremely rare. OG. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
