Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 06.10.2007 16:23, Denis Washington wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:08 +0200, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > On 06.10.2007 13:01, Denis Washington wrote:
> > > Maybe we should go with Calum's idea of merging mouse+keyboard to
> > > "Keyboard and Mouse" and add further capplets for other types of devices
> > > if needed.
> >
> > I understood Calum wanted to keep keyboard and mouse separate, and
> > that makes quite a lot of sense to me. If you look at keyboard and
> > keyboard a11y alone, there are more than enough options in there for
> > one capplet.
> >
> > Merging mouse and keyboard would result in a mega-capplet (touchpad's
> > going to go there as well), and that would probably be worse than just
> > having two capplet entries in the menu.
>
> I agree that input devices other than keyboards and mouses (and maybe
> touchpads) certainly need separate capplets. If you like to keep layout
> settings in the keyboard capplet and also move shortcuts there, having
> a separate keyboard capplet also makes sense. However, I think having
> the keyboard layout together with language+locale settings in an i18n
> capplet, cross-referenced from a combined keyboard+mouse capplet
> (essentially my mockup that started the discussion), would be nicer.

My main concern with that is that you left put a number of options
from the existing capplets (esp. the a11y one). If we came to the
conclusion that we don't need them anymore, that'd be fine, but I
seriously doubt that (e.g. "enable keyboard a11y" (bug 131339 [1]),
"slow keys", some of the options from mouse keys (though they do
look a little excessive atm)). Plus I find the a11y capplet to be
a bit cryptic, and we need better (longer) option descriptions in
a lot of cases. Your mockup already improves some of them, but I
think we'll need a bit more space still.

Jens