Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:00 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 10/9/07, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:57 +0200, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yeah, I know some of the a11y team were involved in the discussion about
> > the new a11y capplet (and I missed it altogether), but personally I find
> > it completely redundant now-- or rather, I would given a minor tweak to
> > the a11y tab of the Preferred Apps capplet to handle the
> > enabling/disabling of the accessibility gconf key.  (I can think of a a
> > couple of ways we could do that, one explicit, one transparent to the
> > user.)
> >
> 
> When a11y came up in the summit control-center discussion, I think the
> overall consensus was that it might be better to depart from
> traditional capplets, and instead have a "a11y setup wizard" of some
> sort.

Right... actually I mentioned that too when this thread prompted me to
file a bug yesterday :)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485088

However, a wizard shouldn't normally be a replacement for regular
preference dialogs, because you don't want to step all the way through a
wizard every time you need to change one setting.  So we would probably
still need both.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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