Re: [Usability]prefs dialog recommendation

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Sven Herzberg">

> > This is similar to gedit's tree preferences... It puts the gedit logo on
> > the title pages, as they're not immediately useful for anything. Is
> > there any need for them in a HIG-happy version?
> 
> Currently thinking about gnumeric1.1's [1] or OpenOffice's [2] prefs
> dialogs i think they can be used very well. The only problem i see is that
> most developers (including me) don't like to write long explanation texts,
> but ??the end user?? would like to see such pages (iirc the corel draw
> suite does this kind of explaining too). Users may not be familiar with
> special terms the program uses. But to shorten labels often these terms
> are used. So especially for newbie-users it would be a feature to help
> configuring their aplications.

Yeah, good call... and we could ask the docs team to lend a hand with the
title page help text. :-)

- Jeff

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