RE: [Setup-tool-hackers] RE: 2.4: System Tools - Please try them

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> El dom, 08-06-2003 a las 00:50, Andrew Sobala escribió:
> > It's worth looking at the Ximian control center.
> > 
> > 
>
http://www.ximian.com/images/screenshots/desktop/control-center-intl-keyboar
d.png
> 
> Although blatantly straight from Largish Hardware And Operating System
> Corporation, imho it solves the usability problems of a) the old
> 1.4/deprecated 2.x shell and b) the 2.x menus. It presents all the
> capplets in categories, so they're easy to find, but at the same time so
> they don't hide. So maybe we should think about using this as a 2.6
> thing; I don't know what the usability team think.

> In this model, I would expect g-s-t (and apps requiring root access) to
> be in the window, maybe under a disclosure widget that hides them unless
> they're requested. But I don't know much about usability.

I've seen this in MacOS X and I never saw the point personally. How is it
easier to use them if they are icons on one big window than if they are
icons in a hierarchical menu? Also, doesn't this just encourage us to have
lots of little control panels because we can categorise them, instead of
having fewer sensible control panels?

Murray Cumming
murrayc@usa.net
www.murrayc.com 
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