Re: [Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

["Kalle Vahlman" <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

2007/12/5, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall gmail com>:
> Hello Usability people!
>
> I am thinking of Gnome-Terminal not just as any terminal, but as the default
> terminal; the terminal we generally anticipate people to be using when they
> are new to the GNOME desktop; I am not thinking of it as a power-user
> terminal, for which Profiles have many reasons to exist.
>
> With that in mind, I will start my quick ramble. It is common for a program
> in GNOME to be configured via Edit -> Preferences. However, the terminal, of
> all things, considers itself different. Instead, we have Profiles, and every
> profile has its own preferences. For a terminal that should really be simple
> to operate, that strikes me as over-engineering that ultimately leads to a
> usability issue.

I'm using a single profile at home and multiple at work to indicate
which terminal is a remote shell on a device or which is my scratchbox
session or where is the serial console. All are color-coded and have
distinct icons.

I haven't really found the single profile usage that much of a problem
(I hardly ever touch the settings anyway), but I do agree that perhaps
the "modify profile" consept isn't the most obvious way to change
settings in that scenario.

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh iki fi
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