[Usability] user levels, etc.



Hi,

An idea we've been tossing around at Red Hat and was also discussed
some at ALS: rather than user levels, let's just remove overly
advanced/confusing prefs from the UI entirely, and have a special
power user control panel that exposes the most common ones, and for
really wacky settings people can use a generic GConf editor app or
gconftool. Windows takes a similar approach, I'm told you can get a
power-tweaker application that lets you set the weird stuff.

Rationale:

  - user levels should not be Nautilus-only, should be global or 
    not at all, so we need a desktop-wide plan
  - user levels are probably too complex for most apps to implement 
    correctly, given that my recent lengthy post on how to do 
    prefs didn't even consider the user level issue, and in fact
    people are consistenly confused about how this works in Nautilus
  - we could make it easier to do user levels via gconf native 
    support, but it still would not be totally automatic, 
    and I'm not sure gconf needs more implementation complexity
    anyway
  - the "power tweak app" solution passes the KISS test and should 
    work pretty well
  - apps can also use Advanced tabs or disclosure triangles as
    appropriate, to complement the power tweak app

Opinions?

Havoc




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