Public bug reported:
When I open the gnome-control-center, I see the following menu items
down the left side: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Background, Notifications, Search,
Region & Language, Universal Access, Online Accounts, Privacy, Sharing,
Sound, Power, Network, Devices (with a sub-menu). Screenshot attached.
If I happen to move my mouse into the menu area I _may_ notice a very
thin "scroll area" show up briefly before it disappears again, or I
_may_ notice very subtle dotted lines at the bottom of the menu, and I
_may_ notice that there is actually another menu item at the bottom that
I have to scroll down to see: Details.
And if I happen to find that and click on that sub-menu, I will find
critically important items in there such as Date & Time configuration
(what I was looking for to get an AM/PM clock, and couldn't find at
all), Users configuration (couldn't find that either so had to add users
by hand from the CLI), and Default Applications (also important so I can
change the default mail client etc.)
What does "Details" even mean? This menu might as well be named
"Miscellaneous". Really that would be MORE helpful: at least it would
be clear that there's a bunch of random stuff below that menu, which is
the reality. The only thing in "Details" that feels appropriate to the
name is the "About" menu.
I really like the format change of gnome-control-center from the "rows
of icons" to the left-side menu: it looks nice and avoiding the "go back
and select something else" by just clicking along the left side is a
very pleasant experience. But the menu organization here is really
confusing and hard to use, and needs serious attention.
There needs to be enough top-level menus to be sure everything fits on
the screen without scrolling.
The About menu item should be on the top-level menu at the bottom of the
list... people think it's not important but it's actually REALLY
important, so inexperienced people can easily obtain critical system
details when asking for help.
And the grouping of these menus needs love: for example, why is "Wi-Fi"
a separate menu item from "Network"? I would think that Wi-Fi, Network,
Online Accounts and Sharing could all be combined into one sub-menu like
"Internet" or similar. Actually I don't have a Wi-Fi adapter in my
system so I don't know what shows up there: maybe "Wi-Fi" is more about
the hardware, and belongs under "Devices"? Either way.
Also I think "Region & Language", "Universal Access", and possibly "Date
& Time" could be grouped together.
And "Background", "Privacy", and "Notifications" could be grouped under
some sort of "desktop" menu. Or maybe "Region & Language" would stay a
top-level item and "Universal Access" and "Date & Time" would be added
to "Desktop".
Anyway. I realize there are lots of ways to chop these items up and
people will have disagreements, but the current situation is really very
not good: the control center needs to avoid the need for scrolling to
see all the options and if things are moved into sub-menus the names of
those menus HAVE to be evocative and clear.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.26.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 29 15:18:20 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-21 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug artful
** Attachment added: "control center screenshot"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1728450/+attachment/4999656/+files/Screenshot%20from%202017-10-29%2015-44-45.png
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