El vie, 04-06-2004 a las 10:40, Sean Middleditch escribió: > Another question is exactly what constitutes as system and what is a > user preference. For example, a proxy setting I consider a system > preference, since the proxy generally is required for a whole network. > So where does the proxy setting fit? While a proxy setting would be generally correctly considered as a system preference, remember that the system-wide proxy setting is just advisory and apps can choose whether to obey or not obey it. Ideally, advisory settings such as proxies should be obeyed by the apps in the absence of user overrides. So it would be both. > > Also, what is the real definition of these? Does system actually mean > "affects the entire machine", does it mean "needs root access to > modify", does it mean "low level non-user type detail", etc? > > Guidelines should be available for config tool writers that specify the > general design guidelines for all this stuff. I.e., how to tell if your > tool is a system tool or a preference tool. How to decide when to break > a module up and whatnot, too. i.e., should proxy be part of network > config or on its own? should uber-capplets that handle 100 different > mostly related things be allowed? if you can configure wireless access > points, firewalls, network connections, and proxy/dns settings in one > capplet, then why shouldn't there be a single capplet that configure all > server subsystems like Apache, Bind, DHCPD, and so on?) > > > and most likely a consistent way of handling unexpected capplets. > > The key issue here is that once the ximian shell starts scrolling > > it is alot less usable. There are also layout issues for > > languages like German with reallydamnlongwords. > > Don't we have a widget somewhere that can do more intelligent icon > layouts? Something that resizes nicely when labels are very wide? And > maybe also configure the shell to adjust its default window size based > on the items within? (To a sane maximum, of course.) > > > _______________________________________________ > > desktop-devel-list mailing list > > desktop-devel-list gnome org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) GPG key ID: 0xC1033CAD at keyserver.net
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