Re: [Usability] merging applets

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:28:50 +0100
> From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
> To: Gnome usability <usability gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Usability] merging applets
>
>
> On 7 Aug 2006, at 15:46, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> >
> >> We (control center developers) are now talking about merging some
> >> of the
> >> capplets,
> >
> > For further context anyone on the usability list should see also:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2006-July/msg00001.html
>
> http://live.gnome.org/PreferencesRevisited is probably also worth a
> read.

Since there is a redesign planned I will take this opportunity to say I
actually like the menu based approach and I hope it can be preserved as an
option.  Microsoft Windows has an option which allows the Control Panel
items to appear as a submenu rather than a single menu leading to a
control panel.  Once you do know what you are looking for having the
control panel items directly in the menus does speed up the process a
little.  The menu based approach doesn't work well presently because the
list of items is very long and things change too often for me to be really
sure which options I really want.

Presumably I could manually add back in .desktop files for each program in
the Control Panel but I would hope any redesign would allow an easier way
to continue using the current menu based approach.  (Perhaps options in
the menu editor?)

-- 
Alan