Two things that I hate in Pidgin right now

Josh Williams yurimxpxman at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 13:33:03 EDT 2007


On 9/3/07, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
> Josh Williams spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > Perhaps the items in the drop-down boxes could be draggable so they
> > can be placed wherever the user wants them. That would cut down the
> > clutter in the preferences menus.
>
> This is documented in numerous usability studies by multiple research
> groups to produce confusing and unpredictable user experience,
> unfortunately.

Sorry, I'd forgotten the GNOME mission statement: "Users are stupid."




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