> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:28:50 +0100 > From: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gnome usability <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Usability] merging applets > > > On 7 Aug 2006, at 15:46, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > > >> We (control center developers) are now talking about merging some > >> of the > >> capplets, > > > > For further context anyone on the usability list should see also: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2006-July/msg00001.html > > http://live.gnome.org/PreferencesRevisited is probably also worth a > read.
Since there is a redesign planned I will take this opportunity to say I actually like the menu based approach and I hope it can be preserved as an option. Microsoft Windows has an option which allows the Control Panel items to appear as a submenu rather than a single menu leading to a control panel. Once you do know what you are looking for having the control panel items directly in the menus does speed up the process a little. The menu based approach doesn't work well presently because the list of items is very long and things change too often for me to be really sure which options I really want. Presumably I could manually add back in .desktop files for each program in the Control Panel but I would hope any redesign would allow an easier way to continue using the current menu based approach. (Perhaps options in the menu editor?) -- Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
