On 6/16/05, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.] > > This might be the "pie in the sky" you warned about: But since no shoe > fits them all, why not provide the user with several panel layouts > that can be selected when gnome is installed or first started? Each > layout would be shown in a screenshot and it would be possible to > switch to another layout with a settings tool. One for Linux gurus > with gnome-terminal, Anjuta, gedit and links to gnome's libraries API > docs somewhere. One for office workers with AbiWord, Gnumeric, > Evolution and Gimp. One default for whatever that should be default.
Ugh, that is probably worse. Every time you force the user to make a choice, it better be necessary, and this isn't. Corey _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
