Preferences

[Derek Atkins]

Terry Boldt <tboldt at attglobal.net> writes:

> General Motors designed and manufactured an adjustable steering wheel column 
> in my van precisely because they finally realized that they could sell more 
> vans to more people that way. The van adjusts to the driver rather than vice 
> versa.The adjustable steerng wheel is one item on the vans "preferences" 
> dialog. Adjustable rear view mirrors is another, adjustable seating, etc, 
> etc.

Yea, but you can't change the color of the speedometer, or move the
radio to a different location in your dashboard.  There are limits
to the extent that preferences should exist.

And yes, I believe it is general consensus amongst developers that
gratuitous preferences are bad, and any preference should be avoided
if possible.  If you don't like the way gnucash works, you are more
than welcome to use another program.  We're not trying to cater to 100%
of the users out there.  If you happen to fall into the 10-20% that fall
outside the range we're catering to, well........

-derek

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