Thanks for taking a second look at this, Dylan.

This carelessness with respect to the controls is like telling your
corporate receptionist that she is irrelevant to the business and is
just a pretty face.  The settings panel and all the sub-pages are the
opening shot when a new users or one who is upgrading gets his first
impression of the software.

I've been a programmer for over 50 years and I think this kind of thing
is unforgivable.  I wouldn't do it, and there is no reason somebody who
wasn't even a twinkle in his grandpa's eye when I started out should do
it.   I am pretty sure Ada Lovelace wouldn't do it either.

If slight changes in the user interface in the system invalidates
everything, it is time to talk about stability in the product.  New
version of the desktops [sic] is not an excuse to revisit the source
code of every component under the sun (and under the moon too).  If you
can't get better programmers, I may have to come out of retirement.

John C. Winterton, CCP,
Professor - Computer Science (retired).

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  the system settings grid shouldn't use a fixed geometry

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