On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:56:48 +0100 Lachezar Petkov <luchezar.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 4) Scaling - I'm not sure what this dialog does at all. It's tiny and > not well explained. We NEED tooltips for idiots like me. Agreed, tooltips are wonderful things, when done right, and can be annoying when done badly (like in Second Life, where most things are done badly). Scaling allows you to scale the entire E UI to be bigger or smaller. > 6) Apps > Problem with naming this Apps is that its not about applications > themselves, but application launchers. On the other hand "app > launcher" is long and probably no good for not tech-savvy users. > I think only one dialog where people can create launchers and put > them in place would be enough. Also simple checkboxes "launch on > startup" and "launch on restart" would be more than enough, no need > even for separate dialogs (that even sound confusing), I think. Also, > if the user wants to start an app when E start, I think its obvious > that he/she would want this app to restart when they restart E (or > when E crashes). So that questions, the "restart applications" thing > altogether. As already pointed out, E keeps apps running when it restarts. I have never found a use case for apps to start when E restarts. About the only thing that crosses my mind as useful for restarts is a script that twiddles with E, pretty much everything else would already be running and setup the same way from when it started. > 11) Input Method Settings - I really don't know what this thing does. If you understood and used input methods, that one might make sense. I dunno either, I don't use them. > 12) We can merge Mouse Settings and Bindigns into one dialog with > tabs. Not sure about Interaction (not sure what it does) and Edge > bindings. Interaction seems to be about scrolling on hand held devices from my guess. > 13) Don't think we need Settings of the Settings. The user > can make E remember the position of the windows in other ways and a > checkbox "don't show this in the future" in the confirmation dialogs > would be much better. The problem with "Don't show this in future" is that it's a one way thing, no backing out if you do want to see it in future later on. The remembering is a catch all for the settings dialogs, otherwise the user has to either remember them one at a time, or know hew to do wildcard style remembers to catch them all. Advanced/Basic can just be remembered from the last time you had a setting dialog open. > 17) Gadgets is totally useless? To my understanding it adds a gadget > to the desktop.. there are much clever ways to do this. There is also the Background Options tab of that dialog. > --Menus--- > 1) I dont think that Fav apps should be in the manin menu by default. > Its more than easily accessible via right click. > 2) Files - should be disabled if icons on the desktop are enabled. It > takes space and doesn't do a better job compared to clicking on your > home/root/whatever icon on the desk. Your main issue with these seems to be that they take up space, but I don't think space is an issue, so I would leave them. Sometimes it IS good to have alternatives. Perhaps moving Favorites to be a sub menu of Applications would make sense though. On the other hand, I got "Places" to, which seems to just be a duplicate of the Files menu, and superflous. > 7) Do we really need the configuration shortcuts? I think just one > "Settings" entry would be enough, no submenus. A good example is the > Shelves submenu - the user can access the Shelves settings by right > clicking on any shelf AND thruough the config panel itself, I see no > need for it in the main menu. Same for the rest of the things there, > I think Not too sure why we have Settings -> All, it just duplicates things, and if it does NOT duplicate things, why are they not in the other menus to start with? Settings -> System seems to now be randomized each time I bring it up. Have to hunt the apps I want each time. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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