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> then you'd have a Settings app that has thousands of options However, some people would actually like that, me for instance. On Firefox, about:config is a g

> then you'd have a Settings app that has thousands of options However, some people would actually like that, me for instance. On Firefox, about:config is a great feature: if you know what you're doing, you can tweak any setting that's tweakable. > prefer the device to do its best to guess at the correct setting This is actually the worst of both worlds. From a UX perspective, I can understand having multiple behaviors with a setting, and I can also understand having a single behavior with no setting. However, I can't agree with having multiple behaviors that change opaquely at the whim of the machine (like in this case), which is just frustrating. At the very least, Apple should have surfaced a setting to developers to control this and made it opt-in.

userbinator 11y ago
On Firefox, about:config is a great feature: if you know what you're doing, you can tweak any setting that's tweakable. That said, I do wish they'd make it a bit more organised than a long list of tersely named options; perhaps a tree view like many other apps' settings use. The idea of providing good defaults, and that of providing rich configuration options, are not necessarily opposites.
- gherkin0 11y ago
  > That said, I do wish they'd make it a bit more organised than a long list of tersely named options; perhaps a tree view like many other apps' settings use. One or two sentences of description per variable/valid option would go a long way as well.