Re: [Usability] [RFC] Proposed AbiWord preferences dialog mockup

[Dom Lachowicz <domlachowicz yahoo com>]

> > > [1] http://gnome-de.org/~manny/prefsmockup1.png
> > General:
> > 1. Why not move the statusbar and ruler prefs
> directly into the view menu. 
> > Would make access to these much quicker.
> They are in the view menu, too.
> I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to keep it in
> the prefs dialog,
> too. Maybe you're right. AW devels?

There's no need for this in more than one place. The
view menu is the obvious place to handle this.
 
> > 2. I thought there was a global gnome pref for
> cursor blink, wouldn't be 
> > better to use this pref?
> I assume this is pref is set by a gconf key. As of
> today, AbiWord hasn't
> got any possibility to interact with gconf. Probably
> a 2.2 TODO.

Is a 2.2 todo.
 
> > 4. Why would you disable tooltips?
> You are right, it's a fundamental question whether
> it makes sense to
> disable them. I think this option is even dubious
> cross-platform-wise.
> Dom?

You can remove the GTK+/GNOME UI for the preference
but I we'll keep the preference. You'll have to do the
equivalent of gconf-editor to change it.
 
> > You should default automatic save to on, thats a
> nice feature :) 
> Hey, that's just a mockup :).
> All the defaults are loaded by some config backend
> at runtime.

Like I said, default is going to stay off for now.
 
> > 1. Kill the splash screen pref. Splash screens are
> poor excuses for long 
> > load times. It is especially unneeded now that
> gnome has application launch 
> > feedback.
> I think the AbiWord developers will keep it as a
> kind of a brand. I'm
> not sure whether an UI option makes sense. Dom?

Pref will go from the GTK+/GNOME UI. Power users can
still do --nosplash or edit their preferences file
manually if they must.

> > 2. Why would you not automatically load all
> plugins? (legit question) 
> Plugins are handled in a non-gnumeric manner in
> AbiWord. You add them
> manually and probably just don't want them to be
> loaded automatically.
> Maybe the label is a bit confusing. The "all"
> implies that some are
> loaded.

Nah, all plugins are loaded on startup, you don't have
to add them manually. There are a few automatic places
where they're loaded from -
$lib/AbiSuite/AbiWord/plugins and
~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord/plugins I think - or at least
something resembling that heirarchy.

Thanks,
Dom

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