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[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Benjamin Mack wrote:
>> great, then we should only commit features that are usable for the 
>> majority from now on. I don't see a benefit here for most users, also 
>> the new feature to put the "not-in-menu" items to the bottom is quite 
>> ok for some users but not for the majority IMHO. People agreed to 
>> disable this feature as well. So I don't know why this policy wasn't 
>> used then?
> 
> And I agree too. That feature removes natural tree sorting. I cannot put 
> sysfolders where I want them to be! Not good. Stupid machine thinks that 
> it is cleaver than I. I really hate that.

Well, I don't like it either, but see my reasoning for making it a default.

> I did. I wanted this both things to be off by default. But programmer's 
> spirit usually wins in combat with end-user spirit, so rest of the team 
> decided to enable these features by default. I am not happy about it but 
> I see and acknowledge the main reason: to present new features to 
> people. That sounds good from programmer's point of view. User may not 
> be prepared to it but he will see that something was done since release 
> of 4.1 ;)

That's also what most programs/OS' do. Show new features but have switches 
to turn them off or to revert to an old behaviour.

Masi