Re: [Usability] merging applets

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 21:18 +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote:

>   +-------------------+
>   | Control Panel     |
>   +-------------------+
>   | Mouse             |
>   | Keyboard          |
>   | ...               |
> 
> This allows easy access to the most commonly used functions, but allows
> for more functions in the control panel. This approach might have
> discoverabilty issues, i.e. users assuming that all options are present
> in the menu.

You could maybe do what we do with our 'favourite applications' at the
top of the JDS Launch menu though, i.e. list a few select capplets,
followed by a (hopefully clear) pointer to the whole set:

+-----------------------+
| Mouse                 |
| Keyboard              |
| Display               |
| All Control Panels... |
+-----------------------+

(Or replace '...' by '>' if you want to put everything on a submenu
instead of in a window.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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