[Geany-devel] Unhide preferences

[Lex Trotman]

On 23 October 2010 12:06, Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
> Le 23/10/2010 02:22, Lex Trotman a écrit :
>> On 22 October 2010 11:04, Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
>>> Le 22/10/2010 01:44, Lex Trotman a écrit :
>>>> […]
>>>>
>>>> So to start the ball rolling, I'll suggest "extra" or additional" as
>>>> the tab labels and "Extra/Additional rarely used preferences" as a
>>>> bold title on the tab and the documentation. Let the disagreements
>>>> start :-)
>>> I'd suggest "Advanced", simply because most applications use this term
>>> (Firefox, Gajim, for the one I know they have similar stuff).
>>
>> Hi Columban,
>>
>> The only reason I didn't suggest "advanced" is that Firefox is the
>> only application I know that uses it as a grab bag of miscellaneous
>> things (eg spell check is advanced?).  Most of the other tools I use
>> keep advanced options associated with the topic they relate to, using
>> a button or extender on the basic page to navigate to the advanced
>> options.  This might be the best UI solution in the long term but its
>> not what we want for now.
> Yes, of course this kind of presentation is not the best. But the reason
> why I think the advanced name isn't that bad is that I see the
> Firefox-style preference list more as "there's all, do what you want
> with it" than "this is useful extra stuff".
> So with the first definition, I think the idea that you need to know
> what you do before playing with this is correctly suggested with
> "advanced". (BTW FF adds a button labeled "I'll take care, I promise" or
> something like that to access this editor :D)

Ahhh, we are not talking about the same thing!! You are talking about
about:config I'm talking about edit->preferences->advanced tab which
is more how Ditmar is planning to present his GUI in Geany.

That explains your suggestion to present everything, which didn't make
sense otherwise.  That is indeed an advanced UI, whereas Ditmars is
more an access to just some rarely used and some possibly questionable
preferences.

> But there's probably no such "dangerous" options in Geany, so it doesn't
> really matter.

IIRC some were hidden because they interfered with others or didn't
work on all platforms or they were non-standard, more confusing than
dangerous.  And some because the programmer was too lazy to code for
changing them (mine) :-)

Cheers
Lex

>
> But that was only my POV, and without some further info (e.g. not all
> prefs will appear). Anyway, I don't think my suggestion is the Right
> Thing(tm), just my feeling ;)
> If you all prefer "additional", why not.
>
> Cheers,
> Colomban
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