Re: [Usability] Default Panel Layout

[BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne gmail com>]

> NB for everyone on the list: I've already had one of our more
> experienced usability people tell me he is sick of arguing about
> defaults for panels/menus/etc., so let's try extra hard in this
> conversation to keep the signal-noise ratio high- try reducing the
> number of 'me toos' and sticking very close to the core issue. No pie
> in the sky for now- just what we have and what we can do now. [Not a
> specific critique of you, Alan, just that you're the first post in
> this thread since I had that conversation.]

This might be the "pie in the sky" you warned about: But since no shoe
fits them all, why not provide the user with several panel layouts
that can be selected when gnome is installed or first started? Each
layout would be shown in a screenshot and it would be possible to
switch to another layout with a settings tool. One for Linux gurus
with gnome-terminal, Anjuta, gedit and links to gnome's libraries API
docs somewhere. One for office workers with AbiWord, Gnumeric,
Evolution and Gimp. One default for whatever that should be default.

-- 
mvh Björn