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

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno mer, 11/11/2009 alle 17.02 -0500, William Jon McCann ha
scritto:
> Hi Luca,
> 
> I'm not sure your evidence supports your conclusion.

Well, to be honest I didn't intent to expose a conclusion like "keep the
Interface settings as is". My apologies if it seems so.

It was more: "please don't remove those settings from the UI until we
have a different, proper place to put them". :)

> 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.

Yes, I agree. I've installed and tried gweakui after it was "suggested"
in the other thread, and I'm shocked. I think something like this
doesn't fit in GNOME Desktop :)

> 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.

There is a threat moving this stuff to a11y. Some people could ignore it
'cause they are not impaired. But in general, yes, we could need some
kind of "Personal" preferences tool, exposing preferences between
usability and accessibility.

Cheers, Luca