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Re: [Ayatana] notify-osd + fullscreen + multiple monitors
The users cant/shouldnt expect everything to be spoon fed! The Option is
there! just because the user forgets ,it isnt a design flaw.
I
wonder what sort of design philosophy you're advocating here. One where
we refrain from automating things that can be automated just so that
our users don't become too lazy? If this is the case, I don't think I
would identify with your ideas, anyway.
A crash is not the error of the car manufacturer but the driver, the
manufacturer has provided the breaks its upto the user to use it! Only
faulty breaks are design flaws.
This
is not a matter of legal or moral responsibility. This is rather about
preventing user errors, or at least mitigating their consequences when
they happen, which, for me, would be a guiding design principle. Given
you're using the car example, let me continue with it: Since a few
years ago, engineers have been working on different types of sensor
systems (such as radar or sonar) that could automatically operate a
car's breaks before it crashes into something. Would you advocate *not*
installing such systems in commercial cars because "the pedal is there!
if the user just fails to press it on time and kills himself against a
wall, it isn't a design flaw!"?
If we start to make a too complex program , it can ,as Mark said, only
lead to more bugs.
I will just refrain from falling into the "Mark said" type of argumentation (see argumentum ad verecundiam [1])
How do we differentiate a presentation done for an audience , and a
rehearsal? we cant!
This
is just a particular example, but I would say *in most cases* people
rehearse in front of their normal screen, but they present using a
projector. If we can differentiate between those two cases, we'll have
probably dealt with more than 90% of the practical situations. As I
already said, and this is possibly the most important point, no
solution will be 100% reliable, but this is no reason to discard it.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority