How to Avoid Preferences
Say no to your users (and have a look at Chapter 24, Avoiding Features). Some people might really like a smaller font size. Perhaps they’ll even send you email, asking you to let them change the font sizes. But that doesn’t mean that adding a preference for font sizes is really the best course of action. You may make some of your customers happy, but you’ll inconvenience everybody else, and you’ll be forced to support windows with different font sizes.
Say no to yourself. Maybe a preference sounds really good. Often, it’s the easiest way out. By simply making something a preference, you don’t have to make that choice yourself. But you’re doing your users a disservice. Remember way back in the beginning of the book (in ...
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