Re: Word-a-Day: capplet, preference tool

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 24 Apr 2008, at 17:01, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Sorry, I meant to mention that in my email, because
> I know many of those are added by my distro.  I'm
> using Fedora.  And, to be honest, the configuration
> tools that come with Fedora don't have a great track
> record in terms of following our recommendations.

Fair enough.

Going back to your original point about "preferences" being a per-user  
thing... yes, I kind of agree on this.  I'm not sure if  
"configuration" is clearly-different enough from "preferences",  
though... maybe we could leverage the Preferences/Administration split  
on the menus?   E.g. refer to the "Mouse preferences window" or  
"Appearances window" for per-user settings, and the "Network  
administration window" or "Time and Date administration window" for  
system settings?

Just a thought...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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