Re: Appearance Capplet Ideas

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

While I was talking with Thomas about the problem of the Theme tab 
changing controls in the other tabs, I came up with a mockup that makes 
an external theme selection window accessible through a "Choose 
Theme..." button, which is above the notebook containing the actual 
preferences. Screenshots are here:

http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/apearance.html

If we can make clear to the user that changing the theme also changes 
his appearance settings, I think this could be a solution to the 
tab-influences-tab problem.

Regards,
Denis

> Thomas Wood wrote:
>   
> > Various people have suggested an all-in-one appearance capplet might be 
> > a good idea to try and reduce our proliferation of these settings over 
> > many different windows. Unfortunately, no one has so far come up with 
> > any good mockups (other than "let's cram all the current capplets into 
> > tabs"). So, I put together a glade file organising our existing options 
> > into the following categories:
> >
> > * Theme - Anything to do with saving, installing and removing themes
> > * Appearance - Colours and styles
> > * Fonts - Fonts to use, and rendering options
> > * Desktop - What to display on the "Desktop" (i.e. root window)
> > * Options - "Look and Feel" options that don't fit into the above
> >
> > A few of the screens could do with cleaning up and simplifying (Fonts 
> > for example). What are people's opinions on "Advanced" buttons so that 
> > we can keep the main tabs clean and simple?
> >
> > The other things that are missing from the current layout are cursor 
> > settings (themes), and also any link to sound themes for the Themes tab. 
> > Perhaps cursor themes should be added to the Appearance category, 
> > underneath icons. I'm not sure how any link to sounds for the Themes 
> > page should work.
> >
> > Screenshots are on the wiki page[1], along with a few notes and ideas. 
> > Please feel free to add any points of importance. If people would like, 
> > I can also upload the glade file.
> >
> > Comments? Questions?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> > [1] http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings
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> I pretty much like the mockup. Besides of the things Rodrigo mentioned 
> (maybe rename the "Appearance" tab to "Style"?), I only have one concern:
>
> 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.
>
> Denis
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