Customizability vs. Shipping a Good Product

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Wed Aug 29 16:11:10 UTC 2007


Frédéric Buclin wrote:
>> We could list them on the index page but not have a tab for some of them
>> on the left or something.  Then clicking that pref name in the index
>> would go to the magical hidden page
> 
> Either a parameter is removed completely, or we keep it visible. I don't
> want to explain someone that the pref he is looking for is hidden. It's
> already hard enough for some of these admins to find them.

But that's backwards logic. Let's reverse it:

It's hard for admins to find prefs.

-> We should have fewer, better organised prefs

But we don't want to remove any (or many) prefs

-> We put the less-used ones somewhere out of the way.

Anyway, let's start by trying to remove some, and then we can see how 
many are left, and whether we need further simplification.

Gerv



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