Re: GnomePropertyBox

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Duncan Mak wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:50:16AM -0600, Bob Smith wrote:
>
> > Well, and example where automatic aply is bad would be the gtk theme
> > selector. I want to scroll through the themes getting a rough idea which
> > one is which, then I aply it to see what it really looks like, and then
> > I often revert since I dont like the new theme as much as the old one.
> > It takes time for all gtk apps to switch themes, so automatic aply would
> > definatly not work for such a common task.
>
> You don;t have to have focus set to the list items when you're scrolling...
> i dunno if it's true for keyboard scrolling (arrow keys), but you certainly
> could just press the up/down buttons with your mouse.

I believe he is referring to the preview area.  If you have a large list 
of themes, it would be rather tedious to try them all out instead of 
using preview.

> I couldn't really think of any task in the current control center that would
> really be bad if apply is automatic, then again i haven't really thought too
> hard on it yet.

Maybe not the official control center (other than the theme selector 
discussed above), but as an example many distros have plugins for it. 
It isn't really all that inconceivable for them to stick an apt or rpm 
front end in there.  You wouldn't really want that auto applied, now 
would you?

-b

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