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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:07:11 -0400
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Hans Reiser wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
> 
>>
>> Some people don't care about speed but need space.  I'd leave them in on
>> general principle, even if no one wants them now.
> 
> 
> Software design is usually improved by identifying features that aren't 
> worth much, and removing them from the interface and burying them where 
> average users don't see them (or dumping them completely).  Interface 
> clutter has a cost.

We already have a section of odd things a user might want to do on a 
small, embedded, or special use. That might be a good place to put it.

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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