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On 18/04/07 17:53, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> I also think people will change their background picture far more often
> than they change anything else in the window
On Sunday 22 April 2007 02:36:52 pm Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:05 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > On 04/16/2007 03:56 PM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:57:31PM +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > >> http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings
> >
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:05 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> On 04/16/2007 03:56 PM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:57:31PM +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> >
> >> http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings
> >
> > Theme selection doesn't affect Fonts, Desktop and Options,
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 16:15 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> In a window like this one, so little of it would benefit from resizing
> (only two tabs out of five) that the overall pain of accidental
> resizing might well be greater than the overall benefit from
> resizability.
I'd want to se
On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Calum Benson wrote:
> ...
> I don't think it's too hard to argue that metacity's "no maximise on
> dialogs" theory is somewhat flawed. Any window that benefits from
> resizing should be maximisable IMHO,
In a window like this one, so little of it would benefit from re
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 4:53 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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>> On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Thomas Wood wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> The themes tab provides a way of saving and apply a pa
On 19/04/07 13:57, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:21 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
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>> Maybe we get some of these things with the new Xrandr? I haven't been
>> following it too closely. The problem I can see here though, is that
>> Display may not be an obvious place to look for whe
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 19:21 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Maybe we get some of these things with the new Xrandr? I haven't been
> following it too closely. The problem I can see here though, is that
> Display may not be an obvious place to look for when wanting to set font
> options.
I agree, es
On Apr 19, 2007, at 4:53 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Thomas Wood wrote:
> ...
>> http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings
> ...
>> The themes tab provides a way of saving and apply a particular group
>> of appearance settings.
> ...
>> This means i
On 18/04/07 18:47, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:23 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
>
>> Either that, or including the remaining options in the theme. For those
>> on the "Options" tab it might make sense as some themes might want to
>> specify if icons are shown in buttons for exampl
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:23 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Either that, or including the remaining options in the theme. For those
> on the "Options" tab it might make sense as some themes might want to
> specify if icons are shown in buttons for example. However, it obviously
> doesn't make much
Picking and choosing the parts I want to reply to.
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 04:53 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Another approach would be to have a narrow vertical list of themes with
> previews (each theme name under its preview) down the left, with the
> tabs for adjusting the current theme
On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Thomas Wood wrote:
>
> I'm currently looking at integrating the various appearance settings
> throughout GNOME into a single "Appearance Settings" application for
> the control center.
Excellent! That's the best news I've read all week. :-)
> I have made some mockups
On 04/16/2007 04:31 PM, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:57 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
>
>> I am not sure
>> if the advice in the HIG applies to this, as it is (or should be) fairly
>> obvious that changing to a different theme will affect options not shown
>> on the current tab.
>
On 04/16/2007 09:57 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Hey Thomas,
>
> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:57 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
>> I'm currently looking at integrating the various appearance settings
>> throughout GNOME into a single "Appearance Settings" application for the
>> control center.
>>
>> I hav
Hello,
>> I am not sure
>> if the advice in the HIG applies to this, as it is (or should be) fairly
>> obvious that changing to a different theme will affect options not shown
>> on the current tab.
> I wouldn't say that's necessarily true, especially as not all the other
> tabs (e.g. Options)
On 04/16/2007 03:56 PM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:57:31PM +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
>
>> http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings
>
> Theme selection doesn't affect Fonts, Desktop and Options, right?
> There should be some seperation between Themes and Appea
On 04/17/2007 03:30 AM, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le lundi 16 avril 2007 à 21:57 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
>
>
>>> Undo and Redo
>>>
>>> There has been some suggestion on the control center list that we might
>>> like to include Undo/Redo or Revert buttons in the capplets[4], It would
>>>
Le lundi 16 avril 2007 à 21:57 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > Undo and Redo
> >
> > There has been some suggestion on the control center list that we might
> > like to include Undo/Redo or Revert buttons in the capplets[4], It would
> > be useful to get some input into the usability/access
Hey Thomas,
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:57 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> I'm currently looking at integrating the various appearance settings
> throughout GNOME into a single "Appearance Settings" application for the
> control center.
>
> I have made some mockups, which can be seen here:
> http://li
Thank you for approaching a problem that I've had with GNOME. I think Benson
makes some good points. Making sure the mental models that a user will create
as a result of modifying appearance will be clear rather than overlapping is
very important. This is actually one problem that I've seen usin
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:57 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> I am not sure
> if the advice in the HIG applies to this, as it is (or should be) fairly
> obvious that changing to a different theme will affect options not shown
> on the current tab.
I wouldn't say that's necessarily true, especially a
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:57:31PM +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings
Theme selection doesn't affect Fonts, Desktop and Options, right?
There should be some seperation between Themes and Appearance, then.
If the user selects a theme and then alters
I'm currently looking at integrating the various appearance settings
throughout GNOME into a single "Appearance Settings" application for the
control center.
I have made some mockups, which can be seen here:
http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings
We've discussed these on the co
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