Re: Appearance capplet

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 08/05/07 13:48, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  I prefer a mailing list discussion over blog comments, thats why I am
>    responding to
>    http://blogs.gnome.org/view/thos/2007/05/08 here.
>    First of all, thanks for working on this, capplet merging remains the
>    #1 thing thats
>    needed in the control center, imo. As always, the devil is in the
>    details though,
>    and like everybody else, I have a lot of detailed criticisms...
>    - I strongly prefer to have the style tab as a secondary details
>    dialog, for HIG reasons
>      and also to match the organization of the fonts tab.

It seems a lot of people would prefer a secondary window, so we'll 
change to using that. I was trying to minimize the number of separate 
windows but it seems we can't get around this one.

>    - Wrt to the "Open" button: it is really easy in gtk to create an
>    image button that
>      behaves exactly like a stock button.

Yes, but unfortunately not in glade as it doesn't set use 
gtk_button_set_image(), and therefore the button images option doesn't work.

>    - "Desktop" is a heavily overused metaphor, and using it as a tab
> label is maybe
>      not ideal. How about "Background" instread ?

I would tentatively agree here, as long as there is still an 
understanding that the tab is used to change the background picture 
*and* colours.

>    - "Preferences" is meaningless as a tab label, since all tabs contain
>    preferences...
>      "Controls" or "Interface" may be better

Basically they are the "feel" options of "Look and Feel". It was 
"Options" before, but apparently they are not options...

>    - I don't think "Editable menu shortcuts" is something thats worth
>    exposing there.

At least, not without a "Revert" button to make it useful. While we're 
on the subject, is there any way we can make toolbar icon sizes more 
useful? At the moment there only seems to be a difference of a few 
pixels between sizes.

Regards,

Thomas