On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, though, that the preferences menu is too large. It > would be nice if there were subgroups and some more cleverness:
For me, the problem is not only that the preferences menu is so long and isn't broken down into categories as in the control-center, but also my feeling that a regular user will simply not comprehend the distinction drawn between "administration" and "preferences". That's what makes a configuration setting so hard to find, because it's unclear which menu it will be in. Even though I've used and contributed to Ubuntu for years, I still find myself thinking twice about which menu I need to look in. I guess that the distinction is intended to be that apps in "administration" change system wide settings, and those in "preferences" change user-only settings, but that distinction is much too complex for most users, I think. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
