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Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme
From: |
Dieter Wilhelm |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:46:32 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> The point for retaining thumbs is that one can't please everybody with
> one approach. From a user's perspective I think offering choice
> outstrips every other disadvantage concerning maintainability,
> consistency, etc.
>
> Many users find that "more choice" adds up to "complexity" and
> "uncertainty". It is therefore usually much better to provide just
> one feature for a certain job than to provide two.
In the general case you are right but here its easier. What is wrong
with the following idea?
"We recommend tumme for you as an image viewing and - management
system. But for the viewing part we did not spare any effort to
provide--especially for You--an alternative."
(Warning: Now its getting nearly metaphysical.)
-----------------------------------------------
Besides user choice (1) there might be two additional points to
consider.
(2) Competition and innovation
Someone might grab thumbs and make an even more complete tumme out
of it.
(3) Rewarding the work of package creators
address@hidden:/tmp$ head -6 thumbs.el
;;; thumbs.el --- Thumbnails previewer for images files
;; Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Jean-Philippe Theberge <address@hidden>
;; Maintainer: FSF
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, (continued)
- RE: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Drew Adams, 2007/04/19
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Mathias Dahl, 2007/04/19
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/19
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Mathias Dahl, 2007/04/19
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Richard Stallman, 2007/04/20
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Richard Stallman, 2007/04/13
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme,
Dieter Wilhelm <=
- Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme, Richard Stallman, 2007/04/13