While our extensive preferences win us a lot of users, they lose us a lot of users as well. The problem is that they are just too complicated, and that there are way too many of them. 🙁
So, I’m working on revamping them. The goal is to have basic, ‘Mom Friendly’ preferences without sacrificing the customizability that advanced users have grown to love. How do we accomplish this?
Well, the plan is to create an ‘advanced’ category on the preference window. This category will house all the complicated preferences that wouldn’t make it into the release of an Apple product, organized in an easy to navigate list. The other categories will be slimmed down and simplified as much as possible, until they reach an iApp/Mom friendly state 🙂
This will let us have easy to use preferences, with a treasure cove of customization concealed in the advanced pane for all that wish to find it. With these changes in place, it’s likely that more preferences will appear, since we no longer have to worry about them interfering with the non-advanced users.
I’ll try and keep everyone up to date on the progress.
