On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a bug this week where the power was screwy and GNOME briefly > thought my laptop was a desktop. I was awfully surprised to see that > the Power panel in System Settings 3.2 has only one item "Suspend when > inactive for...". This looks really bad. I'm not certain that > autoresizing the window is a great idea but a huge empty space isn't > good either, but resizing from taking up half the screen on my laptop > down to an All Settings button and one option just doesn't feel right.
A minimum height for the panels was recently introduced. Could do with some tweaking, maybe. The resize really needs to be animated, too. > GNOME's getting criticism for cutting out options and this design > seems to be accenting the emptiness of what's left after possibly too > much pruning. The options haven't been removed just for the sake of it. Please see the relevant design page [1]. The mockups are up to date, and there are notes on why some of the options have been removed. > There are 20 items in System Settings now, which might be recreating > some of the trouble with the old gnome-control-center. I still get > confused on the difference between Displays, Power, and Screen and > I've been using GNOME for years. Differentiating between displays and screen is a known bug [2] that has been getting attention recently. > I think there is a whole lot of > overlap between Power and Screen. I agree. > As others have said, I wish design had its own mailing list where I > could ask questions like this & not "spam" the whole developer list. I > don't think opening a bug is a good idea when the solution isn't clear > and using IRC for decision making (especially without IRC logs) > excludes those who can't participate in real time during the > European/American workday. No comment. :) Allan [1] https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Power [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653015 -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
