Re: [Usability] Usability Issues in Theme Manager

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 11:51 +0100, Thomas Wood
> > wrote:
> > > So definitely should be fixed? I could never see
> > any use case for having 
> > > the capplet open multiple times, so if it gets the
> > approval of the 
> > > usability team, then I will make sure it is
> > prevented from opening more 
> > > than once.
> > Are you going to implement this in some way that
> > isn't going to have to
> > be a cut&paste code hack for every capplet? Frankly,
> > I don't see a
> > problem with being able to open it multiple times.
> > The use case is that
> > people aren't going to open it multiple times
> > anyway. 
>
> Actually, people do.
>
> 1. They may have forgotten the preftool is already
> open, and behind a window or on another workspace

... which has happened frequently to me, and I've wondered why I've 
ended up with two capplets open.

> 2. They may summon it from somewhere else, eg the
> panel keyboard indicator can open the keyboard prefs.

I've even called it from the menu item before, hoping that it would 
bring the current instance to the top, only to remember it doesn't and I 
end up with a useless second instance.

-Thomas