if i don't like the defaults in an application i tend to look for alternative apps that have better defaults before grudgingly changing the defaults in this app. i just don't like spending a lot of time fiddling with settings.

the hallmark of good application design is to have defaults that are good for the majority of users and don't require fiddling to become useful.

just recently i decided to look for a better way to switch windows in gnome. alt-tab is not convenient because the window previews are to small. the activities overview was a little bit better but slow because i had to use the mouse (i just found i can use arrow-keys too, but it's a bit awkward).

so i went out to search for an extension that would let me cycle through the full sized windows. that let me stumble over a comment that pointed out that i could do that without an extension but with alt-esc.

look ma, no extension. defaults for the win.