Re: A different point of vision (was: Appearance capplet)

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

One small clarification...

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, William Jon McCann
<william jon mccann gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> I'm not sure your evidence supports your conclusion.
>
> I agree that changing the font size (basically the scale of the
> screen) is an important thing.  I've written up some thoughts on this
> here:
> http://live.gnome.org/Design/DesktopFontPreferences
>
> Also, in some cases using a text-only toolbar items makes sense too.
> See gmail for example.  However, this is something that really doesn't
> fall into the same category of user preferences that desktop
> background and font size do.  We should try to figure out the
> appropriate design for these sort of things.
>
> The appearance panel is pretty conflicted today.  We should probably
> have a panel that is specifically about personalization and not
> customization.  Maybe a rule of thumb is - things that are likely to
> change based on external conditions, whims, fancies.  Of course,
> personal computer accessibility is a closely related concept.  So, the
> needs-to-be-written Universal Access panel would likely have some
> overlap here.

Another rule of thumb... these should be things that are not only
likely to change but that we want to *encourage* people to change.

> In my opinion, things like background art, screensavers, and font size
> are in scope.  Things like the choice of icons in menus or editable
> menu shortcut keys are clearly not.