Preference to disable input completion?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 07:47:40AM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote:
> > Yep, that was the major point why we left continuous spellcheck off years
> > back.
> >
> > Now it seems that you missed the new thread about continuous spellcheck
> > from one month back where left wing of devs come up with the reasoning that
> > many users won't get idea about existing spellcheck in lyx unless it's on
> > by default.
> >
> 
> I've never been called left wing, and I'm pretty sure I don't qualify as
> 'dev,' but this goes beyond reasoning. 

To state myself clearly by left wing position I meant the opinion that the users
need someone to guide them, while the right wing opinion tends toward more raw
ui experience when you are on your own.
When you lean too much to the left there is a danger that power users will be
annoyed by the helper functions (I guess that's what Maria called bloat), when
you lean too much to the right you will make you program hostile to the average
user base.

IIRC in the case of continuous spellcheck the initial decade old discussion was
that it's hard-to-find function for some newcomers vs irritating bloat for some 
oldschoolers. The resolution was to keep it off by default but add toolbar icon
for easy discoverability.
The current push was that toolbar icon is not enough and resolution was that
conservative users will be served by pref2pref machinery to keep it off, while
newcomers will have it on. Meaning that you need be both conservative and oldcomer 
to have it off by default now :)

Pavel