Re: 2.4 Proposed Modules - battfink

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 17:11, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Havoc Pennington writes: 
> 
> > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:13:07AM +0200, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote: 
> >> - The new Energy Saving control panel lets me choose a standby time
> > 
> > /me grumbles about adding control panels...  can't this go in an
> > existing panel, or be right-click on some object instead of a control
> > panel? 
> > 
> > Havoc
> 
> Putting this in a right click menu is like "saying this is hidden and you
> don't need it." I think the current problem with the control center is that
> its dependent on the apps menu. If we are really concerned about  the
> menu becoming too long, we should probably just default to showing a select 
> few prefs
> dialogs in the apps menu and include a link to the nautilus view of the
> control center for a more complete set of pref dialogs. This has the
> advantage of making the most commonly used prefs easily available (fonts,
> themes) while making the more obscure ones easily findable without crowding
> the menu. 

I'm not convinced about this solution.

How do you tell the user that when he clicks on the preferences menu,
he's not seeing all of the preferences? Do you call the nautilus link
"More preferences" (yuck)?

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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