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Originally Posted by ratinox
Yup. You can't please everyone.
The most core tenet of UI design is keeping the interface simple and consistent. Providing options to change the UI layout -- in other words make it inconsistent -- is bad UI design. If you're going to break from this tenet then you should have a good reason for doing so. I've yet to see anything in this thread that I consider a good enough reason.
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Inconsistency? When you change the UI around every couple of releases, I think you are standing on pretty shaky ground saying adding more options makes the UI inconsistent.
I don't really care about UI tenants, or best software practices; I want something that is going to maximize my reading time. Having to repetively click through a UI to keep it "simple and consistent" to get basic functionality that I want goes against my tenant of "don't make a product a PIA to use."