There are so many menus and settings these days. Especially in old-good Desktop Operating System software. What if we’d just remove them all-together and introduce a separate Settings app for each app?.. Like Apple Watch does with its settings on the iPhone.
Please, just let me work. And when I want to set-up a new software monster to my needs, just keep those settings in a universal text file config, but represent those settings as a separate front-end.
Or even front-ends, plural.
Let me, a designer, to design a separate Settings app for your app, if you yourself is unable or unwilling to do that. Let other designers to do that. Let us collaborate. I want to set-up a new software like just once, but I don’t want to waste so much time trying to make meaning out of all the bells and whistles in here.
I’d rather install a second app, quickly tune everything, and remove it, if its presence is bothering me.
- Adobe, KDE, even Apple, I’m looking at all of you.
- Microsoft, I have no expectations of you, you can stay mediocre.
- Gnome Foundation, you almost did it right with your Gnome Project.
- Linux in general, you’ve got the point long ago. The thing is, you never introduced front-ends for most of these monsters. Perhaps with the exception of the installer interface for most of your distros.
- FreeBSD, you’re good, but you’re too simple for this. Come when you’ll become a monster too.
I hope never. Someone must stay sane.