Re: Preferences [Was: a whole lot of other things, too]

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> On 27Apr2002 04:53PM (-0700), Seth Nickell wrote:
>  
>
> > 3) KDE needs such a control-center monstrosity because they have Waaaay
> > too many preferences and categories. We have about 15 preference pages,
> > each of which is fairly small, most of which do not have tabs. With the
> > current number of preference pages I would say categorization of the
> > GNOME preferences is almost unnecessary. I plan to do some
> > categorization anyway, because I expect the number of items to grow.
> >    
>
> Dude, with 15 items the hierarchy hurts more than it helps. With that
> few items, the easiest way to find something is to have a list of all
> the items at once. I would say with that few items, there is even room
> for growth before imposing hierarchy has a net benefit.
>
> In your categories below, for example, how would I know to look for
> Accessibility in "Personal" rather than "Desktop"? Or vice versa for
> Font? All preferences are personal to some degree, that's why they're
> called preferences.
>  
Maybe it would be worth adding keywords to the current capplets, so that 
they can be categorised, but set the preferences vfolder impl to ignore 
those keywords for now.  If we do add a Mac OS X style control panels 
view to nautilus at some point in the future, those keywords could be 
used to sort the dialogs.  If the number of dialogs increases 
dramatically while hp isn't looking, then the keywords could be used to 
create a deaper heirachy.

James.

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