Re: Appearance Capplet Ideas

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 04/04/07 12:41, Denis Washington wrote:
[...]
> I pretty much like the mockup. Besides of the things Rodrigo mentioned 
> (maybe rename the "Appearance" tab to "Style"?), I only have one concern:

Possible, but I already used Style as a label in the Appearance tab too.

> Choosing a theme in the "Themes" tab would change settings for control 
> style, icon set etc. The problem is that the HIG says:
>
> "Do not design a notebook such that changing controls on one page 
> affects the controls on any other page. Users are unlikely to discover 
> such dependencies."
>
> So we may need some change here.

Ah, yeah I had thought this might be a problem too. My suggestion would 
be to create a separate Theme capplet, with just the contents of the 
Themes tab.

Perhaps Calum has any ideas on how confusing this would be?


Regards,

Thomas