Re: File open dialog: Where is my tab extension
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:53:05PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:40:21PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > >
> > > > The point is to hide features that only power-users will use. Let me
> > > > know when you see someone on a Mac or Windows using tab completion,
> > > > right? ;)
> > >
> > > All Windows boxes I have used were setup to enable tab completion.
> > > Heck, the trick was shown to me by an MSCE college at the previous job
> > > and is dead easy. One Windows registry key to change and bingo.
> >
> > Eh, was that meant to be funny? If you change registry keys in order to
> > configure stuff, you qualify for being a 'Windows power user' I guess.
>
> Because you have to modify a reistry key to enable it, doesn't mean that
> you have to be a power user to enable it.
Exactly.
By that logic, every time anyone on this list answers someone's problem by
saying "just use gconf-editor and change the key" they are admiting that GNOME
went from user-friendly defaults in 2.2 back to "look ma, everything tweakable"
mentality of 1.4. I really don't think that's such a good thing.
--
Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/
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