Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On Apr 19, 2007, at 4:53 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > >> On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Thomas Wood wrote: >> ... >> >>> http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings >>> >> ... >> >>> The themes tab provides a way of saving and apply a particular group >>> of appearance settings. >>> >> ... >> >>> This means it will change the settings on other tabs, and this is >>> contrary to advice in the HIG. However, I am not sure if the advice >>> in the HIG applies to this, as it is (or should be) fairly obvious >>> that changing to a different theme will affect options not shown on >>> the current tab. >>> >> ... >> One way to fix the tab problem would be to follow the general layout >> of the "Network Settings" window: have an option menu listing the >> themes, centered above the set of tabs. The biggest drawback of this >> approach would be that there would be nowhere for the theme previews >> to go. >> >> Another approach would be to have a narrow vertical list of themes >> with previews (each theme name under its preview) down the left, with >> the tabs for adjusting the current theme (or auto-creating a custom >> theme, if you started tweaking one of the presets) on the right. (If >> you were determined to allow multiple custom themes, the bottom of the >> theme list could have [+][-] buttons for adding/removing them.) >> ... >> > > A third approach would be to have a "theme" consist only of those > settings in the "Appearance" tab, not the settings in any other tab. > For example, it seems very unlikely that you'd want to change font > rendering per-theme, and it makes more sense for the font choices > themselves to be placed together with the font rendering controls than > for the font choices to be theme-dependent. (It's also not really > useful for font choices to be theme-dependent as long as Gnome > distributions have a dearth of GUI-quality fonts, and that situation is > unlikely to improve soon.) > > Cheers >
Excuse me for repeating myself, but another approach would be to make all theme settings suggestions which are in other tabs so the user has to explicitly apply them, see my mockup: http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/appearance.html Regards, Denis _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
