Jeff Abrahamson on 23 Aug 2006 12:59:13 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] default email client for Firefox


On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 07:30:05AM -0400, Dan Widyono wrote:
>   [23 lines, 129 words, 933 characters]  Top characters: _etnislo
> 
> > >What a ghastly user interface.  It's annoying how unset string variables 
> > >are
> > >not shown by default (or so it seems).
> > 
> > I think the point of not showing them means that they are set to their 
> > default value.
> 
> I repeat, ghastly.  :)
> 
> I've seen interfaces where the default is perhaps in italics or a different
> color, along with a legend stating so.  When you alter something, it changes
> color / changes style / etc.
> 
> I prefer that to FF's "missing keys and values" method.
> 
> If they don't want to clutter, then perhaps they could organize the list
> (which is annoyingly long) into a tree which can be collapsed.

I thought changed values were indicated in bold.  That's what it looks
like empirically here, anyway.

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 Jeff

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