On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 05:55 +0000, Toby Smithe wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 16:20 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > I'm not saying this is easy, especially for those coming from different
> > > modules, but this would reduce the current number from 24 to 12. Which
> > > is quite an acceptable number.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hear hear!
> > 
> > also remember that frequently settings can be moved to 
> > context-appropriate locations such as the file manager or other 
> > situation where the setting arises, instead of dumping all settings in a
> > big central set of prefs dialogs.
> 
> But what about those who already know where the settings they want are?
> They're going to have to learn all over again, which is a bad thing for
> usability's sake. And why might a file manager be appropriate for global
> settings? This just gets confusing...
> 
those people can just type what they are looking for in the search entry
and not even look at the categories at all :-)
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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