-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthew East wrote on 23/02/09 13:29: > > I wonder if it would be appropriate for inclusion of > gnome-control-center to be considered again for Jaunty. > > I still think that the points made in my email below remain valid in > Jaunty - for me the absence of a structured preferences menu is the > main problem that stands out at me from Ubuntu's otherwise awesome > desktop. There wasn't really a very comprehensive discussion of the > issues when I raised this back in August 2008. >...
The problem with gnome-control-center is exactly the same now as it has been for the past three years: it's faster to use if you don't know what you're looking for, but slower if you do know -- because you have to wait for, and close, two windows instead of one. It also takes up far too much screen space, making it netbook-incompatible. Meanwhile the Preferences and Administration menus have been getting slightly worse over time, partly because of more stuff being added to them (such as System Cleaner/Janitor and "Create a USB startup disk"), and partly because PolicyKit is correctly beginning to allow administrative and non-administrative changes in the same interface (such as user account settings, and system-wide keyboard layout and network proxy). I have begun designing an interface that would fix the current problems with gnome-control-center by embedding settings panels into the shell window, as KDE and Mac OS X do, and as Windows Vista and Windows 7 are moving towards. The design is still in the very early stages, though. <http://live.gnome.org/SystemSettings> Independently, as Celeste mentioned in this thread, designers at Sun have been doing user testing on categorization of settings panels. They visited Celeste and myself at UDS in December to discuss their research, and they plan to make it public, but have not done so yet. Cheers - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmj12YACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecqryACglA4TYDR4VfdwCiwb6Y+tJy5g 8IsAn2iACh6sV7l44+uymU3t4RpIIY/Q =9PmZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
