On Jan 31, 2009, at 6:34 PM, bulia byak wrote:
The "Latency skew" and "Pre-render named icons" options make absolutely zero sense for the user.
Especially the former. For the latter, I can at least guess that it's something to do with icons. With "skew", I'm totally at a loss. What latency? Where? When? Tooltip only exacerbates the confusion.
Can we please remove them and never, never again add such "options for the developers" to the UI?
Well, if you skim the archives you should see that it was added to help users, and was for an issue Mental added that you'd complained a lot about.
Also it is directly related to X11 input timing, and with all the recent changes on that front, the issue is pertinent again. I recently spent time discussing things with Peter Hutterer (who did MPX) including the state of X Input and recently released features (was said to be in X as of Jan 1). He also covered in his talk t linux.conf.au that GIMP and maybe Inkscape were the only apps actually using the extra stuff, so it does look like we'll be on the front of things as the updates to X start to show up in users hands.
However, as a general rule I think we definitely need to have a "review the prefs" task that we do whenever things might look like we're closing in on a release.