On October 4, 2009, Giulio Camuffo wrote: > yes, but someone could find the popup coming without asking annoying, while > simply a click would be enough.
i can imagine any number of things being annoying to someone out there. if that is the measure for when an option should be included, everything would be optional and every one of our config dialogs would have dozens of options in them. this is why i default to "no" on new features that introduce new UI or new forms of complexity in the code and look for justification of them. in this case, the question is whether the pop up is the expected reaction to the active task of plugging in a device. this is not a random action that happens, this is something the user is physically doing to their computer. in this case, it is the action of least surprise and not something we get really complaints about. we can use the space saved in the config dialog and complexity saved in the code to add things later on that we haven't thought of yet. just think if we'd added a ton of features to this widget's dialog before you'd come along with things like "show all devices". :) > Anyway i don't think we're gonna change our mind my mind is changeable; it's happened already on this one with the "show only removable devices" option, in fact. but this feature has not been shown to meet the design concepts for Plasma desktop in a way that justifies the costs. other opinions are nice, but what's required is to demonstrate how the cost/benefit of this feature works out in favour of benefit. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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