Re: Some things I think GNOME should improve

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 14:01 +0200, Les Paul wrote:
> 2013/4/2 Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>:
> > Can you elaborate on how you think the help could be improved?
> Of course. As I see, "Settings" and "Help" are both required. But they
> are barely used.

Eh?  What metric tells you these are "barely used"?

> So you could move this options to a general Settings
> and Help Application, respectively. I think this way is even more
> intuitive. I need help and I have and application called "Help". I
> need to set up something and I have an application called Settings.

No, seems far far less intuitive to me.  I am in the application - why
can't I just adjust the settings there?  I'm already there.  Why do I
need to go to something else?  And if I open Help from an application ->
I get the help FOR THAT APPLICATION!

This seems like modularization for the sake of modularization.  And
breaks the flow of using GNOME apps vs. non-GNOME apps - which will not
follow the convention and the settings app will be oblivious to them.
And if I develop that an app I want to work on GNOME, it won't follow
that convention if I also want it to work on any other platform /
environment.

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
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