Re: [Usability] Default Panel Layout

[Corey Burger <corey burger gmail com>]

On 6/16/05, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne gmail com> wrote:
> > 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.

Ugh, that is probably worse. Every time you force the user to make a
choice, it better be necessary, and this isn't.

Corey