On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Peter Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:45 -0500, Natan Yellin wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Peter Clifton <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference > > dialogs together. > > > > Off the top of my head, the following preferences could go together: > > - Keyboard and Keyboard Shortcuts > > One is is hardware settings, another is more about how we interact with > the system. If we were to support mouse gestures, for example - they are > quite conceptually similar to keyboard shortcuts. Thinking of Compiz, > for example this defines a lot of keyboard and mouse gesture shortcuts. > Perhaps you're right. It might make sense to merge the mouse and keyboard preferences together. > > > - Network configuration and Network proxy > > > - Appearance, Screen resolution, Screensaver, and Windows > > Screen resolution is more of a hardware thing, but otherwise I agree. > Screen resolution goes with setting up things like external displays, or > a projector - and I'm not sure that users would conceptually group > _those_ tasks with the list above. > I don't think most normal computer users make that distinction. I'm quite technical and I don't even think of it that way. > > > - Personal File Sharing (gnome-user-share) and Remote Desktop > > > If you also look at the Administration menus then there are even more > > possible merges. > > That is true. > > > -- > Peter Clifton > > Electrical Engineering Division, > Engineering Department, > University of Cambridge, > 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, > Cambridge > CB3 0FA > > Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) > >
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