Hi Simon,
Thank You for your remarks.
I'm thinking about 'Appearance' and 'Desktop'. You're right, not everything
belongs to appearance what I placed there.
I have problems with two parts:
- Default Desktop Icons has partial relationship with appearance ('Show
Thumbnails' and 'Single click to...' checkboxes too).
- Desktop Menu and Window List Menu has partial relationship with appearance
(they influences how the Desktop works instead of how it appears).
I'm absolutely sure Background tab should go to 'Appearance' instead of
'Display', because 'Display' is for hardware settings (i think in every OS) and
the desktop wallpaper definitely belongs to appearance.
The question is does it really worth to keep 'Desktop' settings item only for
the 2 tabs above (Desktop Icons and Menus)? Or we could place 'Customize the
look and behavior of your desktop' description under the title of Appearance.
See the mockup:
http://ubuntuone.com/5XTuAUES2xHNQP8qcG6Kmp
Notice: See 'Desktop Icons Appearance' and 'Default Desktop Icons' labels.
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Feladó: Simon Steinbeiß <[email protected]>Címzett:
<[email protected]>Elküldve: 2012. szeptember 7. 2:42Tárgy :
Re: Settings rationalization
Hey Imre,
[I'm CC'ing Stephan, because he already started to work on implementing much
of what you suggest here a while ago. Unfortunately it wasn't done by the time
Xfce4.10 was released.]
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 02:10:37 +0200
Benedek Imre <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been looking at the Settings Manager and I've found there are quite
a few illogical things - it could be better organised and rationalized.
+1
> 1. If I'd like to set something about appearance, I have to open 3(!)
items: Appearance, Desktop and Window manager.
I'm not sure I fully agree. Although the desktop influences the "appearance",
it is kinda different from the icons, gtk-themes and window-manager themes.
Also: following your logic would also imply that the mouse-theme goes here and
I'm not sure that'd be a good choice...
I mostly agree with the rest of the changes, especially having both gtk-theme
and window-manager-theme in one tab could be useful.
Theoretically (some of) the desktop-settings could also go into the
display-settings, especially setting the wallpaper (which would make setting
different wallpapers for multiple displays more intuitive.
> 2. Window Manager has 2 Settings Manager items: 'Window Manager' and
'Window Manager Tweaks'. Personally I don't like Tweaks, just because it sounds
a bit 'hacker' style. But it's not the point, it's more important that Window
Manager and Tweaks has more tabs, which do not belong here I think. (Details
later.)
+1 (although I don't care if "tweaks" sounds hacky, not even sure it does)
> 3. Keyboard and mouse: in conjunction with them there are more options
which placed in 3(!) different places: 'Keyboard' and 'Mouse & Touchpad',
'Window Manager' (Window Shortcuts) and 'Removable Drives and Media' (Input
Devices).
One problem of merging that is that the stuff from "Removable Drives and
Media" comes from thunar-volman, but I guess that's still solvable. Other than
that +1.
> 4. Workspaces: remember the content of Workspaces tab of 'Window Manager
Tweaks' came here .
> I think it's unnecessary to use tabs in 'Preferred Applications' because
those 4 settings can be placed together.
> See the mockups:
> http://ubuntuone.com/7C61jcllXeuSJZI0Cn7Cfs
> http://ubuntuone.com/1aDa57A5dGAgrV588FP0GV
Makes some sense, I guess. The "Preferred Apps" could get a more space-saving
layout, then the 4 items wouldn't have to go into a grid, but a simple list.
> I think with these changes we could get a better organised, consequently
built Settings Manager.
> Notice: I did not want to redesign, but only reorganise the Settings
Manager.
Nice work! I'd wanna wait for Stephan's response, because I don't want to
start a re-iteration of discussions that already went on in the
xfce-development mailing-list, but that mailing-list would be the right place
to post stuff like this. Generally speaking "we" (as in: the Xubuntu team)
always try to fix things upstream instead of patching things ourselves (which
results in a delta that we have to maintain by ourselves and less goodness for
all other Xfce distros/users).
Let's hope we'll see this in Xfce 4.12 :)
Simon
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