[Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

Murray Cumming murrayc at murrayc.com
Thu Feb 22 05:55:36 PST 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 08:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
[snip]
> was it lack of an obvious way
> > to do so (during installation or elsewhere) that prevented you from
> > doing so, or some other reason?
> 
> I had (and still have) _no_ idea.
> 
> I think Gnome people have this very strange dichotomy:
>  - "We have tons of config options.." (it's true, sometimes, just not 
>    where I cared)
>  - "..but we hide them, because only experts should use them"

Really, we are quite proud of the lockdown settings, and we would like
lots of people to know about them. I'm sure that the "sabayon" User
Profile Editor people would welcome suggestions about how to make this
feature more obvious. If it's hard to find when you need it, then it's
not due to malice.

> and then they think that just because you're an expert in one thing,
> it 
> means that you should know *Gnome* intimately. 
[snip]

Telling you about the existence of this feature was meant to be helpful,
not to demand that you should know it already. Really, we are not like
that.
 
-- 
Murray Cumming
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