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

[<bordoley msu edu>]

Correct me if i'm wrong here but under the current terminology isn't a 
preference defined as a single user preference (eg. any user can change these 
unless the administrator specifically disables this option through gconf), 
while a setting is defined as system setting that affects all users (eg. 
requires root).

So perhaps the answer is a new top level menu name. Bill suggested "Desktop" 
I believe, however browsing through bug reports, seth would like this name to 
replace "Actions." I'm not sure of any other good top level node name though.

dave


Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> said:

> 
> Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com> writes: 
> > I don't know about anybody else, but the distinction between these three
> > isn't clear to me.
> 
> That's a problem too. We can't just merge them though, there are 40 or
> 50 total items.
> 
> The categories are intended to mean:
> 
>  Personal - affects currently logged in user
>  System   - affects all users, requires root password, e.g. hardware setup
>  Server   - configure your Internet server, e.g. Apache configurator
> 
> You could mix them up, though I do think we want to make the
> distinction between Personal and System clear in some way, if not via
> menus - I believe the root/user boundary is something it's right to
> keep, I don't want to assume single-user systems.         
> 
> Havoc
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