Re: [Usability] User centered redesign of desktop preferences

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Maarten wrote:

> > Should this also contain for instance the sound-juicer sound profile?
>
> Well it could.

Nice, I'm curious about new mockups!

> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/introduction.html

Could you give a short explanation of what this does? That page does't 
make things very clear to me.

> Yes I should shouldn't I :). I guess I will now :)

Good boy. ;-)

> place. The added benefit would be that not every file sharing capability
> ifolder, smb, nfs gets it's own control center menu item. I would
> consider that a bit of a disaster really.

Agreed. If you finish this, perhaps post it to bugzilla too so it won't 
be forgotten.

> Example. I don't think you should lock-in smtp settings to evolution
> because there could be more programs that want to make use of mail
> sending capabilities.

Agree completely - but currently Evolution is still quite monolithic, 
unfortunately. I hope the Novell people will agree to move these prefs 
out of Evo.

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen