Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2 cam ac uk>]

On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 19:09 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:45 -0500, Natan Yellin wrote:
> 
> > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference
> > dialogs together.
> > 
> > Off the top of my head, the following preferences could go together:
> > - Keyboard and Keyboard Shortcuts
> > - Network configuration and Network proxy
> > - Appearance, Screen resolution, Screensaver, and Windows
> > - Personal File Sharing (gnome-user-share) and Remote Desktop
> 
> I don't know if this is normally part of GNOME or not, but in Ubuntu
> Jaunty with GNOME 2.25, there's a "Pop-Up Notifications" item in the
> Preferences menu.  It's for changing libnotify's colors, I think.  That
> should also be merged into Appearances if it's part of GNOME.

Or delete it.. since it serves no useful purpose? (Sorry, that's
possibly flame bait I know!)

Seriously though.. I'm running Jaunty testing out some graphics drivers.
I have _34_ launchers in the preferences menu. Cut the cruft! That
applet you mentioned doesn't even work properly (it often reports an
error messages when you try to preview).

As far as I can see, it changes no useful settings whatsoever, and if
someone is so motivated to find settings for libnotify, I'm sure they
can find the right program without it being in the preferences menu. Its
not a common thing to want to change, so a quick Google search wouldn't
hurt IMO.

I realise that I'm sounding like a really stereotypical GNOME settings
scrooge, but in this case I think I may have a point. (PS. I'm not a
GNOME developer, so don't take my view as representing that of the GNOME
project in any way - I'm just a user, and an application developer).

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Peter Clifton

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