Re: Control center and capplet merging

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

I think merging Font into some sort of Appearance capplet makes a lot of 
sense.  I think Appearance is a perfectly discoverable name for this 
kind of setting.

Merging Font into an Appearance applet would open up the ability to have 
an actual Font capplet, that launches fontilus.  Installing and managing 
fonts is unexposed in the UI currently (afaict), unless you know to 
Ctrl-L type "fonts://" in a nautilus window.

Having an entry point to fontilus would actually be useful to me after 
the first 10 minutes of using a new desktop install, unlike the 
desktop/terminal/window-manager Font capplet.

-Alex

Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 27/06/2005 alle 17.08 +0100, Calum Benson ha scritto:
>
> > On 27 Jun 2005, at 10:07, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I did have no time to add comment on wiki page or open relevant bugs,
> > > but IMHO merging Theme and Fonts capplets is not a so good idea.
> >
> > One advantage it would have would be for accessibility... it's pretty  
> > common to want to change both together if you need a High Contrast  
> > Large Print theme, for example.  (And personally, the first thing I  
> > do when I install a Linux machine is to change both the font and the  
> > theme, and then I pretty much never touch either of them again, so  
> > I've always wanted them in the same dialog anyway...)
>
>
> This is a personal "taste", and I suppose you are an experienced
> computer user as everyone on this mailing list. The last time i opened
> the Font capplet to change something was... humm.. 2 years ago... 
>
> IMHO it's better to keep them separated for average (and sub-average)
> users, so they can simply discover them. Reading Appearance in the
> Preferences list, do you think everyone can figure that it's the place
> to tune fonts?
>
>
> > I see that a separate Accessibility capplet is proposed as well,  
> > though, so perhaps this wouldn't be an issue any more anyway,  
> > depending on its precise contents.  (Although I'm not sure if  
> > capplets that affect values in other capplets are such a great idea  
> > either, but that's probably a separate argument...)
>
>
> Well, for this kind of needs i was thinking about something like the
> attached mochup[1]. Of course it overlaps the Theme, Font and Background
> capplets, and sets more keys with a single widget[2], but if you need to
> setup an environment for impaired users it's quick and simple.
>
>
> 1. Strings suck, I know
>
>
> 2. i.e. I believe that activating the "Using computer I've difficulties
> with font size" option, the system should use Sans font at the same size
> everywhere (window border, desktop, applications..)
>
>
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