Re: libgnome: User level

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth Sun COM>]

Good points.

(come back soon Martin, we need you!)

Colm.

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>On Wednesday 20 June 2001 16:09, you wrote:
>> It is diffcult to achieve a sufficiently fine-grained definition of
>> "user level" because people are always at different levels with different
>> features, based on the way they use software. This is true not just for
>> individual applications but also for features within a single application.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> Colm.
>>
>
>Yes I agree it should be configurable for each application. And we should 
>think about what this setting is suposed to do, we I think we need 
>consistency in this respect, too. I think a personaly like the nautilus 
>approch(every thing you can modify in the userlevel is used by the programm, 
>everything that's hidden is treaded as set to  default).
>
>I think it we should have one global userlevel that is used by all 
>applications for which the user didn't choose something different. Each app 
>would then store something like 'use sys default', 'beginner', ... or  
>'expert'.
>
>I think it will be useful to have an global setting so that people like me 
>can have all apps start in the highest userlevel (I like reading a lot 
>options, and choosing my preferences)
>
>I guess it's too late to have the feature that more settings can be set to an 
>application specific setting(big font in Application foo-bar; no icon in 
>menus for the app which got the icon too lousy etc.)
>
>	martin
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