Re: Plans for 2.20

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:55 +0100, Denis Washington wrote:
>   
> > One thing we should really think about IMHO is how the 2.20 capplets 
> > should generally look like. Should they stay simple notebooks? I may be 
> > wrong, but I don't think that we really can merge very many preferences 
> > without making a second categorization level possible at least for some 
> > capplets. We shouldn't work around this issue with just opening extra 
> > windows for certain preferences to reduce the number of tabs. I know 
> > that notebooks in notebooks are not a very popular option (though not 
> > against HIG as some seem to think), but I'm pretty sure we need some way 
> > of sub-categorization; it may also help to find thinks better if the 
> > preferences are grouped in a clever way.
> >
> >     
> could you please send to the list the mockup you showed me? That way, we
> can talk about something real :-) My personal opinion is that, after
> seeing Denis' mockup, it doesn't look that bad
>   

Here is the mockup, a notebooks-in-notebooks version of a simple 
keyboard and keyboard-a11y capplet. The actual UI can probably be 
improved, it's mainly to show the notebooks:

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

Comments are more than welcome :)

Denis