On 17 Apr 2008, at 20:57, Richard Elling wrote: > Harumpf! > > Calum Benson wrote: >> >> On 16 Apr 2008, at 18:37, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> I'm with you 100% on choosing good defaults and not asking >> unnecessary >> questions. But there is no such preference in this case, so >> completely rearranging one's panel layout later requires considerably >> more effort than just checking a box somewhere. > > That is a different problem. Unless I missed the memo, we're talking > about which bar is on top and which is on bottom.
Well, it's a little more than that. The two most popular options were (as expected) "one panel, with a launch button", and "two panels, one with a menu bar instead of a launch button". If it were just a case of the user wanting to swap the position of the panels, then sure, they can already just drag them around however they like. But to switch from (say) the suggested one panel layout to the suggested two panel layout, they'd currently have to: - figure out how to add a new panel (not as obvious as it ought to be) - drag some stuff from the original panel to the new panel - delete the launch button from the original panel - add the menu bar to the new panel > Pick one and go > with it. Savvy users will do whatever they will. But people who write > docs or manage help desks will really appreciate a single, known > default. True (although where helpdesk support is being provided, sysadmins would probably do well to lock down the panels altogether anyway). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
