Preferences dialog suggestions

[Chris Lyttle]

On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 07:18, Derek Atkins wrote:

> I absolutely DISPISE the Mac Interface, for ONE reason: it's too rigid.

You're entitled to your opinion too ;)

> 
> Suggested routes that I think work well:
> 
> 1) reorganize the preferences to make the pages 'logical'
> 2) create an 'advanced' set of preferences to hide less-used ones
> 3) rethink the differences between "Edit -> Preferences" and "File ->
>    Properties" to really understand what options are UI (per user, and
>    belong in the Preferences) and what options are 'Data' (per-file,
>    and belong in the File).
> 4) rethink the "'Options' Button".  I don't know how many times I've
>    wanted to open up my preferences and instead hit the 'Options'
>    button on the toolbar.
> 

Well now that you bring this up, the route that GNOME decided on for
GNOME2 was basically to place advanced preferences in gconf, this way
users would see a fairly simple interface and advanced users (such as
yourself) would still have all the functionality they wanted. All the
above are good suggestions that actually go a little further than I was
trying to.

Chris

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