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Give people choice: People who like it old way are still happy and people who like new stuff will just switch. Make a dialog at the start of the session when y
by Elhana 13y ago
Give people choice: People who like it old way are still happy and people who like new stuff will just switch.
Make a dialog at the start of the session when you release new features, asking if you'd like to enable new features or keep your old settings for existing users. Install new features on by default. Everyone happy, no complaints.
Then collect stats after some time and see what is actually getting used and if 95% is in favor of some option - remove the old feature.
This could also be a nice incentive to provide stats to developers - your opinion gets counted.
- michaelt 13y agoWhile this would be the ideal, having too many options is kind of a hassle for third party developers. I mean, you test on the latest version of Ubuntu, then the LTS version, then with Gnome3, MATE and Xfce, then with Kubuntu and Xubuntu, better test all of those in 32 bit as well as 64 bit, and with free and nonfree drivers for Intel ATI and nVidia graphics cards, and you're sick of testing before you've even got off the major Ubuntu variants. Or you don't test like that, and I find I can't get Google Earth to work, or I get VPN software that can't disconnect properly if I use the Gnome3 network manager, or any of a dozen other annoyances.