Re: [Evolution] Evolution's icons

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 08:21 +0100, guenther wrote:
> Right. If your Desktop does not by default ship with the GNOME main
> menu
> (GNOME Desktop) or at least with a convenient and user-friendly way to
> access the GNOME Control Center (KDE for example) -- I assume this
> desktop to be broken. Please complain to your distro vendor if he
> failed
> to do so. ;)
>
> GNOME does provide it. There should be absolutely no reason to call
> the
> settings "by name" on a decent desktop.

I seem to remember that some earlier versions of KDE did provide it, and
of course it's not hard to add if you know what you're doing. But that
isn't the point. The point is that most Joe Users don't know what "the
Gnome Desktop" is (they barely know what a desktop is), nor do they
distinguish between a Gnome app and a KDE app, so why would they look
for a special Gnome menu to change some settings and a different (KDE)
menu to change other settings? The "natural" place to change the
preferences for an application (for many values of "natural") are from
the application itself. It even has a menu called Preferences! Never
mind that they may affect other apps as well; for a user to know this he
has to have a clear mental model of how all the pieces fit together, and
in my experience that just isn't the case.

This is actually a rant about desktop design, so it's getting Off Topic.

poc