Re: To answer your question about the upcoming Style-Guide...

["Dan Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org>
To: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Saturday, July 25, 1998 3:24 AM
Subject: Re: To answer your question about the upcoming Style-Guide...


>Dan Kaminsky <effugas@best.com> wrote:
>> >they do take up PANEL real estate, however. but I still - and after
having
>> >done that experiment with gnome-newbies even more than before - believe
>> that
>> >we HAVE to show the new gnome user that it's possible or he will never
even
>> >try to reconfigure.
>>
>> Have you watched users generate their own panel icons once shown they
exist?
>
>no, I haven't done too extensive research. actually, I've shown one of them
>that it's possible, but didn't give him time to play around afterwards.


Then it's a matter of an effective screenplay, *not* in making a sample
finished product pre-exist on the toolbar.

That being said, there should be samples pre-existing on the toolbar, for
the specific reason that there are certain apps which benefit from being
quickly accessable.