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[Petko <pditchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/10/2012 01:30 AM, pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> But now I understand what may have happened. The Canonical team tested 
> dodge windows as default and concluded that it made people 
> uncomfortable and then concluded that the option was not good even for 
> a non-default setting and decided to wipe out of the configuration. Is 
> that it? 
Well no , they concluded that it's too much to have three options and 
they have to make a call which to should stay . Here you may be right 
that this decision was flawed because they took data from users who did 
not set that up themselfs . So after they cut it as an option they cut 
it as a function too , to keep the code clean ...
> Since the design team decided that they would complete delete "Dodge 
> windows" and keep "Always hide" (as non-default), I thought they have 
> tested both in the same conditions. And as I understood they tested 
> Dodge windows as default, the same should have been done with Always 
> hide. Or even better, they should have tested them as non-default (and 
> hence giving the users some kind of explanation of what the 
> non-default behavior was and asking them to change it themselves). If 
> such test in equal conditions was not done how do they know that users 
> prefer Hide always instead of Dodge windows? best, Paulo 
Here the problem is that testing has its costs and they can't test every 
detail like that .

Petko