On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 14:26 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > 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 :-)
But I hope we do not move settings into other applications; like the "file manager". -- Help me get to Venezuela! http://tibsplace.co.uk/venezuela _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
