It's obvious what "Bluetooth OFF/ON" does. But the other two examples demonstrate why I think Gnome designers have taken a wrong turn with this one-big-switch pattern. Often it isn't useful: Why would you want to turn Bluetooth Sharing *and* Personal File Sharing *and* Screen Sharing *and* Media Sharing *and* especially Remote Login off, all at once? Unless you're going into Flight Mode, which is presumably in a different panel and doesn't require you to toggle this switch anyway.
And often it isn't understandable: What does it mean for "Search" as a whole to be "off"? Does that hide all search features throughout the OS, from the print dialog to the file manager? The label for the list below suggests (too late, layout-wise) that it's just the search field in the Activities Overview. But what is the point of turning that off anyway? Maybe that switch is useful, but it would need a label to explain why it is. Notwithstanding those problems, if Déjà Dup is used on non-Ubuntu Gnome systems, I understand that you might want to be consistent with those other panels. Meanwhile, though, I'm planning to put the search field in that spot of the window in System Settings for PC. So it's your choice which is more important: being consistent with Gnome on non-Ubuntu systems, or being consistent with the same panel in future Ubuntu versions. I respect your decision either way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1280274 Title: The control panel includes a switch without description Status in “deja-dup” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Using deja-dup in trusty: - open system-settings - click on the backup icon - look at the panel, there is a switch widget at the top right... but nothing that helps the user to understand what the control is doing Would it make sense to have a "Backup" label next to it? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1280274/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
