On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:33 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote: > Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > > On Ter, 2006-12-12 at 11:51 -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote: > >> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:26 +0100, Étienne Bersac wrote: > >> > >>> A menu longer that 10 entry is very painful. Often, Gnome properties > >>> menu is about 20 entry when you install some additionnal softwares. > >>> Gnome is the only desktop which keep using this outdated > >>> "control-center". A control center is far more usable and accessible > >>> (especially if it provide search). > >> This also could mean that we have too many capplets. > > > > Agreed. > > > > But even if we can't get away from a multitude of capplets, there's an > > alternative solution: add an extra level of preferences "categories", as > > we do for the applications menu. > > > > Four clicks to get to a preference window? Sounds a bit excessive. > > We had the discussion about the number of capplets already on the > control center list. It was generally agreed that it would be nice to > merge some of them, but (as far as I know) all except one of the > suggestions had problems. And after that, the biggest issue is finding > some developers with enough time to actually do the work. > > I do think using a shell window is easier than a menu, especially when > it has search and filter features. It is also likely to be more familiar > to users coming from other desktops. > But what is being used for the search functionality? Beagle? Time to go buy a super-computer so I can change the sensitivity of my mouse :-) I know that search/tag/filtering is the hot topic, but how is that better here?
Someone mentioned 4 mouse clicks to get to an applet is ridiculous. With a window that needs searching, we are talking a mouse click, wait for application to load, multiple keyboard presses, another mouse click, then you are where you want to be. That is a lot more back and forth between the keyboard and mouse than a menu. Jon _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
