Re: Plans for 2.20

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 01:12 +0000, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 
> 
> 2007/3/6, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>:
>         Hi
>         
>         So, it's time to start thinking about 2.20, since we have so
>         many
>         changes we want to do. Here's a list of the things I've been
>         collection
>         myself, to start the discussion:
>         
>         
> 
> IMHO, the problem cannot be addressed focusing on the capplets itself
> but in the issues that forces users to use the capplets (none wants to
> use the capplets just for fun). What they expect to find in the
> keyboard preference capplet? The layout? The blinking speed of the
> cursor? 
> 
> Some of the suggestions could be fine, but now that we have the shell,
> we should try to get the best of it and so, we must be careful on
> merging/splitting them.
> 
> Do we know which capplets and which part of them are more used? Do we
> know if there are some never used? I think that we need this
> information before to proceed to make any change to the UI, perhaps
> something that makes sense for us (who know how capplets works and why
> are they supposed to do), doesn't make any sense for most users, even
> if we try to help them, we are poisoned with our knowledge, and so, I
> think that getting some real data may be worth. 
> 
> Rodrigo, do you know if Anna's team at Novell has any documented
> usability tests about the control center usage?
> 
betterdesktop.org has all the usability tests they have made public.

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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>