Re: Window Managers [was: Control Center Plus - gone?]

[Nils Pedersen <n p sun com>]

I started doing a high level *user* object model for GNOME before Christmas,
but didn't take it much further because the underlying GNOME implementation
wasn't really going to support in 2.0

http://www242.pair.com/nilsp/nils/G2-desktop/desktop_user_object_model.png

Personally, I like these kinds of diagrams because it allows you to test 
things like what levels of the implementation model you are exposing to 
the user, whether you have a consistent set of actions on a object, that
attributes are handled in a consistent manner: in fact a lot of the issues
that have come up on desktop-devel-list and usability in recent days.

Anyway, its not complete, probably wrong, and it was developed originally 
for panel editing, but it may be something we wish to develop further...

Nils

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM> writes:
> > But the world is not only new users. Are the only valid use cases for
> > gnome 2.0 'new user' and 'will just customise it all by
> > hand-editingvarious scripts and using command-line gconf tool'? We
> > definately seem to be headed that way.
> 
> Or gconf-editor, which is pretty reasonable as soon as someone adds
> support for displaying the docs from the schema files, and some
> planned special handling of things like colors. We also have the
> "Advanced" submenu of Preferences, and I'm sure someone will write the
> power-tweaker app that pokes various gconf keys.
> 
> > It would be far easierand more sensible (imho) to have them read
> 
> Stop right there in mid-sentence, and go read "User Interface Design
> for Programmers." User interface rule #1: nobody reads anything.
> Nor do they want to. And that includes advanced users...
> 
> Havoc
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