Hi Norbert,

2017-04-16 13:28 GMT-03:00 Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name>:
I wonder why voting is considered something good. To me voting is rather a last resort strategy.��
Voting is taking power without the need for having an opinion nor any reason. To me the sense of voting is to make most people feel empowered/comfortable. And the outcome is often poor or even contradictory.


On the contrary, voting is a good measure of the wisdom and education of the community.
Voting is a way to get people who seek absolute power and tyrants out of the road.
Because a man without a vote is a man without protection.
Because voting and prevents the cult of ignorance promoted by the Open-Source lemma of the "benevolent dictatorship".

That post-modern notion of benevolent dictatorship will solve things is terrible.

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Hern��n



my 2 cents,

Norbert


Am 16.04.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com>:



On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Cyril Ferlicot D. <cyril.ferlicot@gmail.com> wrote:
Can people just explain to my why we have so many big threads each time
a default settings is changed?

Law of triviality. ��https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality ��
Because its natural to have personal preferences/opinions and easy��
to bike-shed about those. I'm as guilty as the next guy.

btw, I'm in favour of the board making these sorts of executive decisions rather than voting.
Sure if a vote was 90% against the dark theme it would seem strange to go against it,
but what if it was only 51%.�� I don't imagine that result really smoothing community sentiment.
Now what about 55% or 60%? Where you draw the line now becomes an executive decision.

So sometimes its more efficient to just move than have continuous discussions.�� Also there may
be a bigger picture to bring in more users/money (aka marketting) which we don't hear��
the details of.�� But people do need an opportunity to vent so the board are not blind��
to community sentiment. So just roll with it.

cheers -ben
��

I understand that some settings need a certain default value when it
come for discover-ability of a feature. But why so many noise for
feature that are totally taste dependent? The principle of settings is
that some people will like the default one and some will not like it.
That's the point.

Why are people so afraid of settings? I have the impression that Pharo
has no setting system each time I see those threads.

Neverless, I agree that we should have a way at the first launch of
Pharo on a computer to let the user define some common settings as
Squeak does. It's a really cool feature of most IDEs (like Intellij for
example). Probably too late for Pharo 6, but not for Pharo 7.

I am just a little tired to see this many noise for things like that.

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