Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Philip K.]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

>>>> and which may well be discouraging people from using Emacs
>>>> at all (because it looks useless and out of touch).
>>>
>>> We have no data to support that.
>>
>> I did, very carefully, not claim that we do.
>
> At some point on the past it was decided that having a toolbar was a
> good thing. Switching it off just because a very poorly executed survey
> barely resembles a democratic vote on its utility, without revisiting
> the original motivation, is questionable.
>
> Really, this kind of decissions should be based on guidance by UI
> experts. Sadly, it seems that we have none onboard, same as every other
> Free or Open Source projects around (and even most propietary ones).
> They are very scarce.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but can a non-Emacs UI expert really help with
something as other-worldly as Emacs? And I don't even mean this in an
elitist way, just that it has so many conventions and usage-patterns
from parallel UI traditions, that it might seem easier to just start all
over (which I'm not advocating for).

> BTW, I disable the toolbar (and the menu) on my config.

-- 
        Philip K.