user levels

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

I should mention that user levels are really Andy Hertzfeld's pride and 
joy. The others of us who worked on the user level feature thought of it 
more as an experiment. Although I think the results were pretty good, I 
would be comfortable replacing it with another solution to progressive 
disclosure of preferences.

On the other hand, I haven't heard another specific solution yet. Jim's 
suggestion that we use disclosure triangles as they are used on Macintosh 
is not yet clear to me. It might be a good approach, but I can't work out 
the details in my head. For example, specifically where would the 
disclosure triangles go?

It would be a lot of work to reorganize the preferences in Nautilus, but I 
don't have any theoretical objections to doing it for GNOME 2.

    -- Darin