Somebody claiming to be Benjamin Johnson wrote:
Roger wrote: But imagine you're a new user and not really all that tech-savvy. Say staring at white webpage backgrounds all day makes your eyes hurt. Would you rather
a) spend hours looking through a long configuration file looking for an option to somehow darken them; or
Why are you proposing that the rc file be so complicated? It takes less than 15 minutes to read through every single available option in the current dillorc.
b) click a button that says "Darken white backgrounds"?
New users (in my experience) cannot find such buttons. Mostly because they assume anything their program doesn't already do is "hard". So they call me and then I have to find the button. Not that I'm saying there should not be a button, but I think the idea that GUI configuration panes are "newb friendly" is a bit of wishful thinking.
"Darken white backgrounds" is better, because it recognizes this implied norm. The word "darken" also states a clear action, unlike -- for example -- "disallow." A user should never have to stop and think, "What does 'Disallow white backgrounds' mean?" if there's a more obvious way to word it.
I agree with this. Maybe even change it to a setting for *how much* to darken. Maybe. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See <http://singpolyma.net> for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph