[horde] Suggestion and Feeback on default values

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in>:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> conf.php and *.local.php lets system administrators set some values as
>> default.  If user is using the Horde for the first time the default values
>> gets applied to the user. 
>>
>> The user gets a option to change the values if the value is not locked.
>>
>> After experimenting with the changed values, user may desire to bring back
>> to the original or default which he does not know. 
>>
>> will it be right to display the values defined in conf.php or *.local.php
>> as default values in screen where preferences are allowed to change so that
>> user sets it to the default?
>> -- 
>>          Regards
>>           Anant
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> I cannot recall seeing any application or UI that allows for that.  
> There are buttons for resetting all settings, but displaying  
> defaults sounds like an aweful idea.

Agreed.  The only place it *might* make sense is for performance-based  
prefs - say, the number of results on a page.  But user  
interface/experience prefs are entirely personal preference (and this  
is the vast majority of preferences).  The default values in the  
distributed file are nothing more than placeholders since, after all,  
there needs to be some kind of default.  But the default values have  
no special meaning, and there should be no reason to allow the ability  
to "reset" to them - let alone informing the user that they are the  
default.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]