On Oct 4, 2007, at 2:08 AM, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le mardi 02 octobre 2007, à 21:21 -0400, Thomas Thurman a écrit :On 02/10/2007, Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Perhaps FUSA should just not show up if it finds only one user. As soon as there are additional users added, it would show as it does today.Sure, we can do that. Anyone want me to add it?
That would be excellent.
This can be extremly confusing. Someone will add the applet and see nothing. Then adds it again. Again. Again. Creates a user. And finally sees 4 applets... ...
That's a symptom of another problem: to "add the applet", or any applet, to your panel makes sense only if you already understand applets as an idea. (And calling them "items" in the GUI doesn't fix this problem.) "Add to Panel" assumes that people will be bored one day and decide to fill their "panel" with "items", selecting whatever items look interesting at the time. Ptui.
I think many, many more people would find the panel items useful if they were configured from the relevant window -- for example, if the "Users & Groups" window had a checkbox labelled something like "Show menu for fast account switching". That checkbox was disabled if there is only one user account, and it would be much more obvious why it was disabled if it was here than if it was a zillion miles away in the "Add to Panel" window.
Similarly, the clock could be configured in a tab in the "Time & Date" window, the "Tomboy Notes" item could be a checkbox in Tomboy's preferences, the presence of the "Trash" item could be a checkbox in Nautilus's preferences, the presence of the "Show Desktop" and "Window List" items could be checkboxes in the "Windows" preferences, and so on.
Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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