Adding descriptions for the benefit of people who don't want to sift through bugzilla or aren't comfortable reading patches.
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 08:44 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > William Jon McCann wrote: > > > There are a few changes we'd like to make to the control center before > > the string freeze. Some of these involve UI changes as well. So, > > according to http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven we need > > approval. > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323323 On the Appearance preferences, adds link "Get more themes online" to the Theme tab, and adds link "Get more backgrounds online" to the Background tab. These point to art.gnome.org. OK by me. > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591375 Puts a nice decoration on slideshow background images. See the screenshot from Matthias: http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=140666 I didn't even know we have slideshow backgrounds. The User Guide doesn't even mention these anyway. No reason to block something that makes an already undocumented feature more intuitive. > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592510 On the Background tab, makes the Add and Remove buttons the same size. I'm not quibbling over these kinds of changes. > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592756 This proposes removing the Interface tab. This removes from the user the options to show icons in menus, enable editable menu shortcut keys, and change the toolbar button label style. > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592759 This proposes removing the Window Preferences tool. This removes from the ability to use point-to-focus, change the titlebar double-click action, and change the window movement key. > > So, how about it? I promise they make the user experience better. > > I'll look at them later today (or tomorrow), CC'ing the documentation > list for eventual input, and the translators for possible string > changes. The first three are fine by me. The last two are much more substantive and would require documentation work. On a personal level, I'm not fond of making window shading even more difficult to find. How do you know that these make the user experience better? Do you have any data on how many users use these features? I know of at least one piece of commercial software that uses Alt+click for its own purposes. They have to instruct GNOME users to change the window movement key to use that feature. You'll be making their troubleshooting docs harder. I'm not saying we need to include every configuration option under the sun. But you need some sort of criteria for deciding whether to remove something. And it really seems like people are using "I don't use it" as their sole criterion, which just isn't good enough. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n