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Replying to @mwichary
Interesting. Classic UX rule is "make the hard choice, kill the setting" but a more nuanced version is make the hard choice, pick a good default. The reason it's tricky is that settings can cascade so a reasonable default can become impossible. You can't make it all settings
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Hmmmm... The more I think about it, the more settings about fonts, skins, layout and keyboard mapping should be "damn near everything". It's the behavioral settings that seem the most challenging/hard to allow "anything goes"
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It reminded me of something you posted (which I can’t find), which was layers of old Windows underneath new Windows.
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I wonder sometimes if the answer is a lot of settings, but with context. Tell me not just what I’m changing, but try to help me figure out how it will affect my work or how it matters.
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Example:”Scrolling direction: natural is how you use your phone, the other one is useful if you’re familiar with the mouse.”
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Interesting you'd choose this example. Previous tweet on it: https://twitter.com/scottjenson/status/897917225541148673?s=19 … Given the craziness number of layered settings, I could not get what I wanted
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Replying to @scottjenson @mwichary
Windows 10 tries to have the main settings at the W10 level but, in my experience, I have to jump between many layers of settings to get even simple things done (turning off 'Power features' from the track pad)
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You know what would be great? Some translation layer between GUI and command line. You could hide more common things in the former, but give people a chance to jump into the latter directly.
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Here we go! https://github.com/sveinbjornt/SnapTools …
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That’s not what I meant, to the extent I can understand what it is… it doesn’t seem to have much to do with settings?
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Replying to @mwichary @scottjenson
Oh, sorry, the tweet I replied to didn't mention settings specifically and I didn't read the thread. SnapTools can do settings, but it's not limited to just settings. It's a work in progress, currently having only file related workflows. It's very malleable.
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