Jon Nettleton wrote: > 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 Gnome is the only desktop which keep using this outdated 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? >
Please dont dismiss this important technology because one implementation is currently sub-optimal for your needs You dont need a super computer or tons of ram or Mono/Java (or any other VM) to run search/tag/filtering - just use a sensible search engine such as tracker which is written in C and designed for running on low end machines (every other competing OS search system I know of is written in a native language as well). Of course any search solution used here should be open ended but I expect the default should be "no search" until at least tracker gets into GNOME :) (Tracker is still under proposal for Gnome 2.18) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
