On 19-8-2012 15:17, Martin wrote: > On 19/08/2012 14:02, Maxim Ganetsky wrote: >> >> This "overlapping" is made on purpose. The idea behind Initial Setup >> is exactly to emphasize the most important options to unexperienced >> users, because Options dialog has heaps of options which can cause >> confusion.
While I see your point, now the user gets 2 different visualisations of the same settings. I'd prefer a single layout so the user starts to recognize things. The user will probably see the complicated options menu sooner or later anyway - keeping him away from hit by providing a pseudo options screen may increase the total confusion... I think Martin's idea about highlighting errors or a "faulty settings" filter will not take away that complexity completely, but help steer the user to fixing serious problems first. > If you want to indicate pages with errors in the options, then do so in > the tree. > > Either highlight/color the tree nodes. Or add a top-level node "Faulty > Settings" (only shown, if child-nodes) > I am for the highlight/color. Yep. It shows the user a single view of the options, and helps him learn to navigate the options hierarchy. > Also, a better Idea is to have setting-modes: Normal / Advanced > Then in normal, there would be less settings. Agreed. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
