Re: [Usability] user levels, etc.

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

I basically agree with this and all the comments after it :-)

-Seth (running off to class)

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 12:06, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> An idea we've been tossing around at Red Hat and was also discussed
> some at ALS: rather than user levels, let's just remove overly
> advanced/confusing prefs from the UI entirely, and have a special
> power user control panel that exposes the most common ones, and for
> really wacky settings people can use a generic GConf editor app or
> gconftool. Windows takes a similar approach, I'm told you can get a
> power-tweaker application that lets you set the weird stuff.
> 
> Rationale:
> 
>   - user levels should not be Nautilus-only, should be global or 
>     not at all, so we need a desktop-wide plan
>   - user levels are probably too complex for most apps to implement 
>     correctly, given that my recent lengthy post on how to do 
>     prefs didn't even consider the user level issue, and in fact
>     people are consistenly confused about how this works in Nautilus
>   - we could make it easier to do user levels via gconf native 
>     support, but it still would not be totally automatic, 
>     and I'm not sure gconf needs more implementation complexity
>     anyway
>   - the "power tweak app" solution passes the KISS test and should 
>     work pretty well
>   - apps can also use Advanced tabs or disclosure triangles as
>     appropriate, to complement the power tweak app
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Havoc
> 
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