Re: libgnome: User level

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth Sun COM>]

To be honest though, it's far more important to think about designing
a good user interface than trying to carve up it's features into
easy, hard and impossible to understand. If everything is easy and
natural, there doesn't need to be such artificial distinctions.

When a feature gets forced into a user interface by jamming a menu
option onto a menu or a tab onto an already over-loaded dialog,
you can't fix it by just hiding it sometimes; it's always going
to be hard to understand and use.

As I have absolutely no idea how to design a UI for use by anyone except
myself, I'm all too happy to ask for help from someone who can, like Calum.

Colm.

>Delivered-To: gnome-2-0-list gnome org
>Subject: Re: libgnome: User level
>From: Cody Russell <bratsche gnome org>
>To: Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>
>Cc: Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth Sun COM>, gnome-2-0-list gnome org
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>On 20 Jun 2001 13:44:24 -0400, Michael Meeks wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Colm Smyth wrote:
>> > My suggestion would be that every application that implements a
>> > user-level feature should maintain it's own idea of user-level (and
>> > this includes how it saves this setting to a configuration store like
>> > GConf).
>> 
>>         I would agree entirely. I like to think myself relatively familiar
>> with emacs, but totaly inexpert with abiword eg.
>> 
>>         Conversely, for some things that just appear to be a single part
>> of the overall desktop [ to the user ] such as Nautilus & the panel -   
>> perhaps sharing the same setting helps a lot.
>
>Also, a default value should exist somewhere.  When I install GNOME for
>the first time, I should be asked what user level to use.  Applications
>will then know where to begin with user level, and be adjustable from
>there by the user.
>
>--
>Cody Russell, bratsche gnome org
>http://grue.zork.org/~bratsche/
>
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