Re: Preferences view ugliness

[Chris Chabot <chabotc reviewboard com>]

Doesnt this beg the question why nautilus is used to display these 
things? I personaly love the gnome2 control center, and feel realy sad i 
can not start it as soon as i install nautilus. The 'control center' 
simply looks better and is more clear to users.

Just my 0.2 euro cents

	-- Chris

Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 10:47, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> > Luis Villa <louie ximian com> writes:
> >
> > > OK, so... maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but why are we doing
> > > what sounds a lot like a complete rewrite at this point in the game? 
> >
> > Because we can't change the schemas later, because it's not a
> > dangerous rewrite - the capplets are simple - and because the current
> > stuff is really embarassingly bad.
> >
> > I don't want to ship the current font/background capplets in Red Hat,
> > for example. They are too lame. 
>
>
> Speaking of which, is anyone planning to fix the ugliness with the
> "Advanced" icon in the new control center aka "preferences:///"?
>
> The icon brings you to a new folder, but there is no actually hint that
> it's a folder (besides it saying "5 items"), and it seems to break the
> user's assumption about what goes on there.
>
> (At the same time, the preferences view needs other fixes: e.g. it
> shouldn't say "/" in the title or the sidebar, and it probably shouldn't
> say "folder" in the sidebar either, nor tell me what date the folder was
> last installed.  And not even the URL entry is appropriate for this.)