Re: There is a thing as too much flexibility

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From: jrodman
Subject: Re: There is a thing as too much flexibility
Date: 18:28 on 23 Jan 2007

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:44:06PM +0000, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> 
> I had a problem with the list view in Nautilus when I first installed Ubuntu
> on a machine: all fields were unselected, so it showed nothing.
> 
> I am told this was never supposed to happen, but it did.  I guess the
> restriction was made at the UI level, but it (or at least the version I was
> using) never checked when it was fed a bad configuration.

"Constraints are better than correctness."  

This seems to be the GUI designer credo.

-josh

There's stuff above here

Re: There is a thing as too much flexibility Robert Rothenberg 16:44 on 23 Jan 2007
- jrodman 18:28 on 23 Jan 2007

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