Accordance Bible Software Blog Comments

Helen Brown

Helen Brown — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:27:06 -0400

I don't think that our contracts with the publishers would allow us to suppress the copyright info by default. However, some defaults can and will be changed for new users. We rarely change them for established users since we assume that they have made their choices.

David Lang

David Lang — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:43:01 -0400

Jonathan, I've certainly made the suggestion that we turn off the copyright info by default, but a splash screen giving version information and telling what program is being launched is pretty standard, and a save warning is helpful for new users who may be shocked to lose a search they've constructed. Sometimes determining what should be the default is not as easy as it seems.

Jonathan Morgan

Jonathan Morgan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:50:47 -0400

When I see advice along the lines of "every user should change default setting X to Y", it sort of makes me wonder why the default is X to start with. Why do we need these prompts? Would it be better to make hiding all of the prompts and so forth the default?