Re: [Usability] Control Center Appearance Capplet

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

Hello,

> > I am not sure 
> > if the advice in the HIG applies to this, as it is (or should be) fairly 
> > obvious that changing to a different theme will affect options not shown 
> > on the current tab.
> I wouldn't say that's necessarily true, especially as not all the other
> tabs (e.g. Options) do comprise the Theme, just some of them.  In fact,
> at least one of the tabs (Fonts) mixes some things that are part of the
> theme (the fonts themselves), and some that aren't (the anti-aliasing
> options).  I can't help feeling some cleaner separation would be
> preferable.

We also talked about this a bit on #control-center. To work around the 
one-tab-changes-another problem, I propose to make font and background 
settings in themes suggestions (as they are now, BTW). That way, the 
user would have to explicitly click  on a button to apply such settings 
and thus would exactly know that those settings are changed. A mockup is 
here:

http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/appearance.html

Regards,
Denis