On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 15:42 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote: > Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > >> Those should happen anyway, and they aren't really anything to do with > >> a spatial interface either. > > rather than each application having a spatial mode option, why not use a > > common setting in gconf "/desktop/gnome/interface/spatial" > > Because it would cause pain. > > Currently, GNOME has desktop-wide settings for things like labels on > toolbars and so on. But those are minor changes in the UI, and it's > perfectly correct to define them desktop-wide (most applications provide > their own setting for it, to make it possible to overwrite the desktop > setting, too) > > But spatial is another matter. Changing from non-spatial to spatial > involves big UI changes (just look at nautilus as an example), and > someone using a "spatial" desktop could as well want to keep a classical > view for some apps. And depending on the context it might be more useful > to have MDI instead of spatial things. It's really on an application basis. which means, if at any point of time gnome desktop goes completely spatial i would have to manually enable spatial feature for all application ?
why not add a setting for global preference, which applications can override ? > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
