One small clarification... On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, William Jon McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Luca, > > I'm not sure your evidence supports your conclusion. > > I agree that changing the font size (basically the scale of the > screen) is an important thing. I've written up some thoughts on this > here: > http://live.gnome.org/Design/DesktopFontPreferences > > Also, in some cases using a text-only toolbar items makes sense too. > See gmail for example. However, this is something that really doesn't > fall into the same category of user preferences that desktop > background and font size do. We should try to figure out the > appropriate design for these sort of things. > > The appearance panel is pretty conflicted today. We should probably > have a panel that is specifically about personalization and not > customization. Maybe a rule of thumb is - things that are likely to > change based on external conditions, whims, fancies. Of course, > personal computer accessibility is a closely related concept. So, the > needs-to-be-written Universal Access panel would likely have some > overlap here.
Another rule of thumb... these should be things that are not only likely to change but that we want to *encourage* people to change. > In my opinion, things like background art, screensavers, and font size > are in scope. Things like the choice of icons in menus or editable > menu shortcut keys are clearly not. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
