Re: [Usability]prefs dialog recommendation

[Paolo Maggi <maggi athena polito it>]

> > This is similar to gedit's tree preferences... It puts the gedit logo on the
> > title pages, as they're not immediately useful for anything. Is there any
> > need for them in a HIG-happy version?

> Currently thinking about gnumeric1.1's [1] or OpenOffice's [2] prefs
> dialogs i think they can be used very well. The only problem i see is
> that most developers (including me) don't like to write long explanation
> texts, but »the end user« would like to see such pages (iirc the corel
> draw suite does this kind of explaining too). Users may not be familiar
> with special terms the program uses. But to shorten labels often these
> terms are used. So especially for newbie-users it would be a feature to
> help configuring their aplications.

I like the OpenOffice's pref dialog or better the fact that it puts a 
long explanation  text in the title pages and I was planning to 
implement it in gedit.
I'm sure the doc guys will help us poor developers to write useful 
explanations texts ;-)

If anyone will provide nice icons, I'd like also to add icons to the 
categories tree.

Ciao,
Paolo