On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:10 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Maarten wrote: > > > Hmm it does seem a bit much. You could divide the applet in the > > following pieces: > > -User pictures. (Different representations of you) > > -Profiles (Desktop customizations fitting user identity) > > Should this also contain for instance the sound-juicer sound profile?
Well it could. It could be useful for lets say CCRMA to make a music artist user profile. In this way themes could become really useful. A sound-juicer profile could be a part of this if it would be useful to the artists. The artist just has to select the theme and the desktop would be configured to the users needs. You could do a lot of stuff like place the right applications on the panel. http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/introduction.html > > -Location. (regional specific settings) > > -Communication (email/aim settings). > > Sounds reasonable. For this to work, I would add "levels of disclosure" > like Orkut has, so you can specify that your e-mail address is visible > to the public but your IM only to friends and your postal address to > relatives. No, I don't know how this should be implemented in practice. > > > This is how the computer dialog looks on my desktop (garnome 2.9.90): > > http://home.wanadoo.nl/sbm/pictures/Computer.png > > <translator hat> > Shouldn't you be testing the Dutch translation? :-s > </translator hat> Yes I should shouldn't I :). I guess I will now :) > > The contents has no relation to the concept "computer" from the users > > point of view. > > > computer with the outside available here. It is more like the network > > folder only then mixed with services available to the whole system. Or > > OK, I see where you're coming from. > Would the 'Outside' folder (this should be renamed to something better) > also replace the Network servers location in Nautilus, so that we get > something like a Network Neighbourhood on steroids? What I like about this is that is easy to explain to users. If someone has a network problem everything is present in a single easy to find place. The added benefit would be that not every file sharing capability ifolder, smb, nfs gets it's own control center menu item. I would consider that a bit of a disaster really. You should not make a user interface from the technologies to the users but from users needs to technologie. In this way you would get a sharing dialog where you can select the technology afterward (if at all needed it should be auto detected what the users capabilities are on the other side) I think it would be important that capabilities of a program that are useful to the desktop as a whole are available for configuration in a single place. Example. I don't think you should lock-in smtp settings to evolution because there could be more programs that want to make use of mail sending capabilities. The information that makes all the network stuff work is now sprinkled all over, some are in apps, some are in the desktop, and some are in a level below that. In this way smtp would be more a property of your internet link (like proxy settings) than some obscure setting in a mail client somewhere. Exporting backups and management could also become easier. What I think is most important is that you don't mix things that are the same object from a developers point of view but are not from a users point of view. As how it is now in the computer folder. It is the computer from a developers point of view. A developer can view the computer from the inside, a user experiences the computer from the outside. > > This is indeed a bit inconsistent. Only somehow I am not able to make > > screenshots of menus, making discussion on this stuff a bit difficult. > > Tip of the day: Use gnome-panel-screenshot --delay. Ahh ok, thanx for the tip. > regards, > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
