Re: "Desktop preferences" as a top-level item



On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:55:12PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> To: Rui Miguel Seabra <rms 1407 org>
> Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: "Desktop preferences" as a top-level item
> From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
> Date: 29 Aug 2002 16:55:12 -0400
> 
> Yep, along those lines. My main worry about it is that it's kind of
> deep menu nesting.

How about something like:

  |                 |
  |    ...          |
  | Preferences > +-----------------+
  |    ...        | Accessibility > |
                  | Advanced      > |
                  | Background      |
                  |  ...            |
                  | System          |
                  | Services        |
                  +-----------------+


> Note that this _totally_ rules out adding more submenus under
> Preferences->Personal, probably, as those submenus would nest another
> layer. Which impacts the other thread about the theme set control
> panel... since it means we do have a hard upper limit on control
> panels of 16 or 18 or so.

I understand the problem, but you already have those, which are already
consider 'advanced'. I don't think it's that much of a problem if they
are in a third level with this kind of menu setting.

Hugs, rui

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