Re: Control Center Behavior

[Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn joshuaeichorn com>]

I saw Mark's original poll on gnomedesktop.org, and then saw the 
follow-up here, and its pretty discourging.

I thought Mark made a good point, but it seems that if your not a 
developer and your smart enough
to find a Gnome mailing list, then your automatically not a real user 
and your needs no longer count.

Anyway that comment is less then productive so don't reply, my problems 
with the current preference setup are:

I can't tell a folder from an launcher. (main issue)
I don't know what other preference groups there are once im in another 
preference section(folder)
I expect them to be treated differently with visible groupings because 
thats how winxp does it

Things i like:
Being able to access them from the menu (though i don't want to use this 
all the time)
The consistency between the different preference windows.

-joshua eichorn

Mark Finlay wrote:

> > 1. Settings moved as a separate main menu beside actions instead of
> > integrated into the programs menu.
> > 2. The shell cc as the default launched from a launcher on the panel and
> > from within the menus.
> > 3. The Nautilus version accessible via preferences:// and start-here
> > - this could also provide a way to modify the cc(when menu editing
> > works?)
> >
> > The main reasoning behind prefering the --use-shell version is:
> > 1. It looks better and simpler, and is easier to understand.
> > 2. It has sepporate panes for launchers and settings which is much more
> > intuitive and eliminates confusion and disoriatation caused by the
> > nautilus version.
> > 3. It loads faster.
> >
> > IMHO it already works well so why do we have to integrate it - just
> > because everyone else is intagrating everything doesnt mean that we have
> > to change things that already work.
> >    
>
> OK - everyone has gotten realy hung up on the idea of this being based
> on a "vote" - i started the vote to get an idea of what ppl thought of
> what were my ideas - the vote was really inimportant - what mattered was
> the actual discussion.
>
> So lets not worry about who voted where - these are MY opinons being out
> forward by ME so if your going to flame anyone for having bad ideas
> flame me.
>
>