On Sun February 26 2006 17:12, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 16:55 -0500, Rob wrote: > > I hope this isn't the design philosophy for GNOME apps > > nowadays.... "put minimal configurability into the app and > > let the power users install the equivalent of regedit." > > Unfortunately it is. The Gnome developers get very angry if > you compare it to the Windows registry "because ours is XML > rather than a binary blob" - which confuses bad DESIGN with > bad IMPLEMENTATION. Yeah, I only run Windows apps under Wine, which saves the registry as a set of text files rather than a binary blob, and it's still annoying to have to hack the registry. Geez, guys, it won't kill your newbie target audience to have an "advanced" button here and there. Rob
