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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 00:34, ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> "David Hamm" <davidthamm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >"To be more accurate, the idea is that allowing user control is often a
> >way to sweep problems under the rug instead of actually solving them."
> >
> >Hear Hear
> >
> >*slams водка mug on table*
>
> Yes, but extremism about this is equally dangerous. It results in a design
> that is well suited for a single,  possibly narrow, use case and useless for
> anything else.
>

+1

everything should be either intelligently adaptive or individually
adjustable.. yet more important than that is the comfort of control. If a
control option in Targetuserland is not comfortable to use or to understand,
it doesn't deserve to be visible -> gconf.

The easiest types of comfortable control are themes. We already have them
for audio, for chrome and for single apps, now i suggest introducing
NotifyOSD support into the themes Radiance and Ambiance..
That way, we could manipulate as much as the theming interface affords.