Re: CDDB-Capplet [was Re: magicdev [was Re: Gnome-vfs blocks

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

Another idea based on this one, is to create a specialized view within
nautilus for the applications:// dir. view as applications?, would be a
nice comprimise.

dave

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 19:50, js orange aubernet wrote:
> > On Advogato Maciej accuses me of following rules blindly, ;-) I don't
> > intend this as some hard-and-fast rule, I just intend to say that
> > deeply nested menus and menus with 30 items in them clearly suck, and
> > a single Preferences menu with a reasonable number of clearly named
> > control panels is clearly a big win. So I very much hope we can keep
> > that and not end up with the GNOME 1.x 31 capplets situation again.
> 
> I'll just state my opinion on this and then go back to minding my own
> bussiness.
> 
> Seems to me that a good way to solve a lot of the problems being 
> mentioned herewould be to actually USE the excellent, pretty, simple 
> and usable control center shell that is already present. It would 
> accomplish
> 
> 	- Saying 'all capplets in application menu must die', they
> 	  do not belong there as they are not applications and should
> 	  be clearly distinguished from them (this is really horrid now
> 	  with 'D' being early in the alphabet)		  
> 	- Clear distinction between categories (left pane) and capplets,
>           (right pane) avoiding the nautilus guessing game (The only
> 	  desktop i can think of that tried to use the file manager for
>           this is/was windows, and it didn't pull it off very well). And
> 	  yes, categories, when used properly, can be good. Normal vs.
> 	  Advanced, for instance, is a good distinction to make.
> 	  preferences:/// in nautilus look stupid if you use list view too.
> 	- No "crack", no clutter, and NO user confusion. 
> 	  Applications->Desktop Preferences and evererything Joe needs
> 	  to fix is right there on the screen for him too see. I bet
> 	  you could even (not that you should) shove 31 capplets in
> 	  there without making him instant apply(tm) windows xp
> 
> So that's the simple solution i suggest. Zap the "Desktop Preferences"
> folder and replace it with a "Desktop Preferences" launcher to
> gnome-control-center --use-shell. Less mess in menus is good, clarity
> is good, and this Works Right Now.  
> 
> 
> Jon
> 	  
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