Re: [Usability] User centered redesign of desktop preferences

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> If a pref is app specific it should be in the app. You want the pref as
> close to the context where the pref makes sense as possible.

Agreed.

> Evince is an application, it just happens that the same UI is suitable
> for a few types of content. We shouldn't be adding video support to
> evince or anything like that.

Evince is an application technically, but it puts the emphasis on the 
document, not on the application. Not adding video support to evince 
is evident, since totem is better suited to those types of content.

regards,

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