NB for everyone on the list: I've already had one of our more experienced usability people tell me he is sick of arguing about defaults for panels/menus/etc., so let's try extra hard in this conversation to keep the signal-noise ratio high- try reducing the number of 'me toos' and sticking very close to the core issue. No pie in the sky for now- just what we have and what we can do now. [Not a specific critique of you, Alan, just that you're the first post in this thread since I had that conversation.]
On 6/14/05, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Luis Villa wrote: > > > Subject: Re: [Usability] Default Panel Layout > > > > > > - We've nautilus and terminal launchers on the panel by default > > > > > instead of evo and epiphany > > > > > > > > Should we 'fix' that? Certainly we're trying to downplay the terminal.. > > > > > > I agree. Could you please open a bug about it? :-) > > > > Done: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307626 > > > > > > > - The system tray doesn't appear on the either of the default panels > > > > > (apparently) > > > > > > > > Ditto- this one seems particularly bad, in fact. > > > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103223 > <snip terminal discussion> I don't think anyone on this list will disagree with removing the terminal (so please don't AOL Alan's comments, anyone), the interesting discussion is solely about what to replace them with. > For what it is worth I like my panel to include Show Desktop and a link to > my Home directory (and a bunch of other junk not worth mentioning). Please let's not get into 'this is what I use'; let's either explore what others are doing (and hence what we should be looking at parity with) or (if possible) discuss explicit use cases that we're trying to resolve. > I notice how in the bug report how the shortcuts are described as > $WEB_BROWSER. The shortcuts in each case are set by the distributor to a > different hardcoded browser rather than say some kind of link to start > whatever has been set in gnome-default-applications-properties as the > default $WEB_BROWSER. What matters is that they provide the user a browser, that's all. I'm trying to understand the user goals they are meeting, which appears to be 'mail client', 'web browser', etc. Luis _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
