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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Confused by y-or-n-p
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:29:40 -0500

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  > I agree with you, but I think you are missing Richard's main point: any 
  > significant UI change should either require setting a variable, or provide 
  > a way to disable the new behavior / re-enable to old behavior.  Because it 
  > is always possible that, after having actually tried out a new behavior 
  > for a while, people dislike it.

Yes, that is true.

It is also possible that, after having actually tried out a new
behavior for a while, people find they like it (although they expected
beforehand they would not).

The plan I propose will help us find out what people think of the feature
after really trying it.


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)





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