What kind of user model are we following anyway? I'd like to make a
personal comment. I use JDS, Mac OS X, and XP. But, I use each one
differently when I need to bring up an application.
On Mac OS X, I most frequently use the dock. If the application is not
on the dock, then it's in the applications folder so I bring up the
finder and then click thru to the applications folder and on the
application I want.
On Windows XP, I use the Start->programs menu. If the program I want is
not there, then I use explorer to go to the Programs Folder or (whatever
it's called. Can't remember since I'm not running on Windows right now).
On JDS (and CDE), I almost exclusively will bring up a terminal window
and type in the name of the command.
Since I use three OSs almost equally (ok, much less on Windows...), I
don't configure the system with too many shortcuts etc...
Am I just weird, or do I represent a typical developer who will use
whatever model is best on the OS that they are using?
(I also do other strange things such as set up my mouse left handed at
work and right handed at home... and place my gaim window in the lower
lefthand corner of the screen on JDS but place xchat in the lower
righthand corner of the screen on my Mac...)
jeremy
Calum Benson wrote:
>
> On 28 Mar 2006, at 14:09, John Rice wrote:
>
>> I think the requirement is to make it easy to access all of the Sys
>> Mng Tools from the Desktop. The problem is that it seems to mix up a
>> users standard desktop and a sys admins desktop. So on the Mac
>> version in the PRD there is quite a different set of tools on the
>> taskbar than on the one that came on my default Mac install. It is
>> the Sys Admin Taskbar really.
>>
>> What about catering for this type of thing with a Sys Admin Panel,
>> that can be turned on if the user installs the Sys Admin Tools. It
>> would have a the appropriate icons for the various proposed Admin
>> tools, like Workspace manager, Services Manager and so on.
>
>
> Interesting thought... we considered that sort of thing (different
> panel "templates" for different tasks... e.g a Multimedia panel, an
> Internet panel, a Sysadmin panel) back in the madhatter days, but it
> never really got off the ground.
>
> Trying to do UI things based on pigeonholing the user into some
> category or another is always a bit risky (the old nautilus "expert
> mode" in GNOME 1.4 being a typical example), but pre-defined panel
> "templates" would leave the user free to mix-and-match or customise
> them afterwards. I'm not sure if the infrastructure is quite there in
> GNOME at the moment to fully support it, but I guess it's something we
> could look into again...
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
