Dear gnome developers and Users, We are having on ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list a discussion about refactoring the gnome menu layout. To have more information on the subject of this discussion, please have a look at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/174277 So I the point is, I like the idea below. Removing the *Preferences* and *Adminstration* menu and replacing them with a single menu *Configuration* with a set of submenus. Can you give me your opinion on this ? Best Regards, wattazoum ps: Please keep the others mailing list in copy. If you don't want to subscribe to those list, please look at the video here http://wattazoum.fr/Optimised-usage-of-Ubuntu-mailing.html to use NNTP with gmane. Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote: > Remco wrote: >> (I could've sworn that I hit Reply to All... oh well, I'm sorry for >> the double emails to you, Greg. ) >> >> I sent the following to Greg an hour ago: >> >> I think that a simple renaming or merging isn't going to fix this. The >> complete configuration system has to be thought out. Someone >> configuring his computer doesn't want to choose between 30 items in >> each list. But he doesn't want to choose between 30 items in one list >> either. He just wants to configure his: >> >> * Personal Info >> - timezone, language, About Me >> * Display >> - resolution, appearance, screensaver, power saving, etc >> * Sound >> - which system, which sounds, recording >> * Input >> - mouse, keyboard, joystick, head tracker, whatever >> * Printers >> - anything and everything >> * Peripheral Devices >> - iPod, Zune, PalmOS, syncing, etc >> * Network Connectivity >> - IR, Bluetooth, Wifi, Ethernet, Proxy, samba, nfs >> * Security >> - Users/Groups, Keyring, Firewall, Anti-virus >> >> Any information, like System Monitor, Hardware Information and System >> Log, should move outside the options menus. You're not changing any >> settings with those. >> >> Package Management doesn't need to be there either. It has a nice icon >> under the Applications menu. An "advanced" button will suffice for >> that. It's not really a setting anyway, so it shouldn't be where it is >> now. >> >> Maybe another configuration applet is needed: Storage. With things >> like indexing, backups, restore points, partition management and maybe >> even defragmentation. But Ubuntu is lacking a bit with backups, >> restore points and defragmentation. (hoping not to start a >> "defragmentation on linux" flame war) >> > > Thank you for this constructive comment. Technically speaking, it'll be > very hard to have every section GUIs merged into one (as those are > different applications). So there is 2 solutions I see : > - Using sub menu for section : > > System > ` configuration > | - Personal Info > | | - timezone > | | - language > | ` - About Me > | - Display > | | - resolution > | | - appearance > | ` - screensaver > | - Sound > | - Input > | - Printers > | - Peripheral Devices > | - Network Connectivity > | - Security > ` - Disks and Storage > | - Backup > | - Partition Editor > ` - Maintenance > > - using some /mini control center Guis/ by section : > > System > ` configuration > | - Personal Info > | - Display > | - Sound > | - Input > | - Printers > | - Peripheral Devices > | - Network Connectivity > | - Security > ` - Disks and Storage > > Some feelings about these ideas ? > > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
