El vie, 04-06-2004 a las 11:37, Jody Goldberg escribió: > Things can get very murky, I doubt we'll ever have a crystal clear > delineator. Look at something like the keyboard layout. That is > currently a user preference which is mostly correct, but the vast > majority of users to date have been tweaking that at the system > level in the XF86Config. I always tweak that in XF86Config. It is definitely not a user preference, although there are bandaid solutions which help the user change keyboard layout. Given that keyboard changes are one every three years, it's safe to assume that the system should have a system-wide keyboard setting. Which modifies XF86Config. So multi head machines can work correctly. > > > 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?) > > Ted Tso's mythical 'tasteful' programmers seem about the only > vaiable way to handle this sort of thing. As far a I can tell we'll > need to handle this on a case by case basis and haggle out which way > seems smoothest for users. The k-approach of just adding a search > engine doesn't appeal. > > > > 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.) > > This is already done to some extent, About the only significant > layout optimization that could be added would reoder rows to > minimize width. I can't see the usability, or docs folk liking > that. > _______________________________________________ > 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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