Re: Control Center must-fix draft

[Kenny Graunke <kenny whitecape org>]

<quote who="Maciej Stachowiak">

> More gratuitous opinions:
> 
> On 05Sep2001 07:36PM (-0700), Seth Nickell wrote:
> > ========Interaction / Organization Issues=========
> > 
> > After some discussion, and a re-evaluation of the existing dialogue
> > proposal, we propose the
> > control center use "[Help]         [Undo] [Done]". Help is optional, but
> > of course desirable.
> > Undo only undoes the last change. Done closes the dialogue. All
> > preferences should take effect
> > as soon as the user changes them.
> 
> I suggest [Close] instead of [Done].

Well, I'm a bit confused - I guess this Must Fix list is for the 1.5.x
gtkhtml based Control Center, not the start-here: one RH uses which is
nautilus-based. I know in the nautilus-based one, each capplet opens in its
own window, so most people can just use the close button on the titlebar.
(And don't tell me users won't have a way to close windows from their window
manager, any such configuration is ridiculously broken and we -are- aiming
to make things easy for new users - TWM can bend.)

> I also suggest removing [Undo], I
> don't think one level of undo adds much. (Of course, if it's left in,
> the button should be dimmed when there is no active Undo item to limit
> the chance that the user will think the undo chain is unlimited). And
> finally, [Help] should probably go to the help for that particular
> capplet and should only be present when the capplet actually has help
> (I hate pressing help buttons only to find a generic "no help on this"
> page).

Yeah.

> In web browsers it's often useful to set the font to something other
> than the system default. I typically use a larger font. Perhaps there
> could be a "web browser font" setting with other font preferences, and
> maybe we could even make some attempt to get Mozilla / Netscape 6 to
> obey it. I agree it's not worth a top-level control panel though.

True, though mostly for font sizes. Also, a web browser will have lots of
different kind of fonts the user can set - Serif, Sans Serif, Fantasy,
Cursive, ... and whether to use Serif or Sans Serif by default. We
definately need to incorporate all the crazy font settings into one place;
as the Sun usability study pointed out, the situation in 1.4 is just
embarassing. I will be very sad if we cannot do something about it for 2.0.

--Kenny