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david_edmundson wrote:
As for adding an option...no! more options are bad.

Options are bad?????

users should be able to customize their PC without having to go through config files!!!! I dropped GNOME because i couldnt configure enough stuff to my tastes. Seems like everything is going down the locked up mentality of bigger OSes, and i give a big thumbs down on this.

of course the flip side of this is having so many options that the GUI looks like the config file, and this is bad 'cause it confuses people. KDE had the perfect balance between these two extremes and i'd hate to see it go.

Why does it appeal to people that the DE should *presume* what you want to do? I like it the way it is: the menu shows action buttons if you already know what it is you want to do (shift for move, ctrl for copy etc.), and managing files with the left mouse button is obvious (how many new users are going to be exposed to that menu my experimentally right-click-dragging-dropping? Very, very few, I think). It also provides another feature that is seriously lacking in other DEs: "****, I didn't want to do that - Cancel!".