On 04/16/2007 09:57 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hey Thomas, > > On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:57 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote: >> I'm currently looking at integrating the various appearance settings >> throughout GNOME into a single "Appearance Settings" application for the >> control center. >> >> I have made some mockups, which can be seen here: >> http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings > > This looks very good, apart from the "Options" tab. First, they're not > options, they're preferences, secondly, they're "Menu" preferences. > Menus and toolbars is a bit too long, just call it "Menus", or > "Toolbars".
No problem with using Preferences instead of Options, but I wasn't going to limit this to just Menus & Toolbars preferences. [...] > >> Dialog Window >> >> Related to the above, I have also not set this window to be a dialog >> window. The window is not asking for any confirmation or action from the >> user, so I think it ought to be a "normal" window. We also had several >> bug reports[3] requesting that the previous theme capplet have maximise >> buttons because in contained a scrollable window. Metacity (quite >> reasonably) does not allow maximise buttons on dialogs, so it had to be >> changed to a normal window. > > That seems fair, but would also need to be changed across the whole > desktop. Definitely, which is why I'd like to see some clarification about these issues in the HIG. > >> Undo and Redo >> >> There has been some suggestion on the control center list that we might >> like to include Undo/Redo or Revert buttons in the capplets[4], It would >> be useful to get some input into the usability/accessibility >> implications of such a feature. > > Not needed, IMO. The changes are instantly shown, and if they're not, > the restarted capplet won't remember what you last changed, and won't be > able to undo it. And would "undo" revert the last change done in the > capplet, or since the capplet was started? As noted in my reply to Calum's e-mail, I think "Revert to default" and "Revert to when I opened this window" would be more useful. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
