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Yeah, I've never understood why ticking boxes in hidden subsections of myriad mysterious configuration apps was generally regarded to be more user friendly than

• fspeech 10y ago
  It is about feature discovery. One can poke around the GUI and see what is possible or one can read the manual about options. I suppose the typical user prefers to poke around. Of course for the power users changing a text file is the way to go.
  • jasonkostempski 10y ago
    It really sucks when the option isn't in a GUI or a text file though, as is the case here.
    • fspeech 10y ago
      Ah I see. There are two issues here: making a configuration option hidden or accessible and making the change interface GUI or text based. I only commented on the second aspect. Depending on one's point of view making a configuration option hidden is either keeping users from shooting themselves in the foot or denying users freedom to control their own machines the way they see fit.
      • code_duck 10y ago
        Sometimes configuration is spread across different GUI apps, or just poorly organized within a single app. The equivalent is a problem with text configuration, too of course. What I think of is things like msconfig.exe, a fairly obscure program that controls a lot of useful and diverse features for Windows, but I didn't even know about it until I'd been a window user for years as for some reason it wasn't included in the control panel until recently.