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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
by 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 agoIt really sucks when the option isn't in a GUI or a text file though, as is the case here.
- fspeech 10y agoAh 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 agoSometimes 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.