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[-] Johanno@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago
[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

3d games are obviously different from desktop apps, idk why I even need to explain this. Try again when you want the cursor to move faster in the email app than in the text editor.

[-] Mesophar@pawb.social 0 points 1 week ago

Not that I would want that feature, but what's a good reason against it? I don't see it hurting anything by being able to customize that, and if someone wants to why is that a problem? It seems a weird hill to die on is all

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's a very well known problem in interface design. If you include every option that someone could possibly want, you'll have three thousand options in the settings, and it will be impossible to find anything without getting severe fatigue from looking at all the toggles.

Consider Windows: with many advanced options, one has to click through a couple dozen dialogs in search of where that option is, getting RSI in the process. You can also take LibreOffice's or old KDE's settings as examples.

MacOS solves that pretty simply: settings that most people use are in the control panel under comparatively few categories and typically readily available in there. Settings that are unlikely to be changed by anyone outside power users are still modifiable through the command-line utility for that β€” which is actually responsible for all the settings, making MacOS very fit for automatic setup with Ansible or somesuch.

However, that's just the design issue. There's also the programming issue: every option increases pathways that the code may take, and thus the possibility of bugs and regressions, and the complexity of the code and tests.

A well-known approach that many companies take is to include only the functionality and settings that conform to the main vision, and focus on that working well instead of trying to serve everyone. This gets them a dedicated customer base to whom the product is tailored, instead of corporate sales made on the breadth of features, wherein the end users need only a tenth of the functions but have to wade through the whole interface. 37signals is one such example of a narrowly-focused company. Github's issues system is likely used by way more people than Jira, Bugzilla and such, despite being quite poor in functionality in comparison β€” but it also doesn't need a two-hundred-pages manual to use.

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