Re: Replacing control center menus

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:36 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:51 -0700, Scott Reeves wrote:
> > I find the filter feature significantly helps with the “too many
> > capplets” issue.  One strength of the new shell is it dynamically
> > displays the filtered list of choices as you type (and <enter>
> > launches when you are down to one).
> 
> As I commented yesterday, this can actually be counter-productive, as it
> means you don't get to learn the initial position of the icon you're
> looking for so you can just find it visually the next time.

Are you actually likely to use any given capplet enough times that you'd
be able to remember where it was between uses? From what I remember of
OS X, I always had to look around a bit to find the capplet I was
looking for.

Also, I don't remember if we're looking at including the SLED
application browser as well, but it works exactly the same way as the
control center does wrt searching, and doing highlighting rather than
filtering wouldn't work well at all there (since there are several pages
of apps).

-- Dan