On Friday 15 of February 2013, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Lubos Lunak <[email protected]> wrote: > > That should be made more obvious in the wording then. I normally use > > -1/-2 as the reverse of +1/+2 > > Well, there are not symetrical:
Yes, I get that now. I didn't before, and that'll happen for more people, because it's non-intuitive. > I guess the problem is the balance between 'clarity' and perceived > 'abruptness'. The 'text' associated with the value has been tweaked in > favor of the later... but Committers should really use the values and > they 'abrupt' meaning to decide when to use them. Indeed, there's always the option of documenting why it's non-obvious somewhere where half of the people'll never find it, rather than simply making it easy. > PPS: please do not shoot the messenger... I'm not shooting the messenger, I'm telling him that the way it is he'll sooner or later need to go on more errands. -- Lubos Lunak [email protected] _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
