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Version:  4.1.6

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Re: "Bloat"

Feedback Type:  Developer Note

Contributed by: Monday, March 22 2004 @ 02:59 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Now that several users have expressed their concern with Butler's becoming too "bloated" (i.e., having too many features), I'd like to explain my point of view in a few words: The functionality of a typical "smart item" (such as "recent pasteboards" or "keystrokes", for instance) only requires a minimal amount of code. Most of the code in a separate application for such a task would have to deal with the user interface. That's not the case with Butler, because the same interface is used for many tasks.

In brief: Combining tasks in one single application is much more efficient than having one application per task. And if you don't use a certain feature, just switch it off (e.g., set the number of recent pasteboards to zero). -- Butler's footprint would NOT differ significantly if it only had half of the smart items it currently contains.   

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Re: "Bloat" - quentinsf

Peter -

This is a good point. But my concern about 'bloat' was more about complexity and ease of use (ie. how many preference options a single app can have before it becomes too hard to navigate) than it was with processor/memory resources.

Quentin

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Tuesday, April 06 2004 @ 02:14 AM PDT