From: Jonatan L. <th...@ho...> - 2004-04-23 20:46:47
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:43:04 +0200 Guido Schimmels <__g...@we...> wrote: > Am 23.04.2004 14:39:48 schrieb(en) Jonatan Liljedahl: > > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:02:33 +0200 > > Guido Schimmels <__g...@we...> wrote: > > > > Hmm, I'm not sure I follow you. I'm not familiar with either gnome > > nor > > kde. > > What do you mean by virtually merged? And what's a capplet? > > I meant put all options in one basket and then pick them apart in a > way they make sense from a user's point, not from the developer's. > (capplet = control-center applet (Gnomes speak)) How would this basket be implemented? > Normally options should be bound to the appdir, allright. But the apps > the desktop shell comprises of are a special case. Try to think of the > ROX-Desktop as a single coherent entity. Ok, then I'm more on your line. A common place for ROX-Desktop options. > > So you mean one big app for setting all options? In that case I > > disagree, I think the options should belong to the app which use it. > > The opposite. Instead of 3 GUIs (ROX-Filer, ROX-Session and OroboROX), > spread out the options to maybe 10 section-less GUIs. So you'd > configure e.g. titlebar font and gtk default font in a font capplet. > In Gnome there is desktop font option. ROX uses the application font > for pinboard/panel. If we added this option it would go into the font > capplet as well. > Or there would be a theme capplet, which would set the wm theme, the > gtk theme and the icon theme in one go by picking a theme. The XDG > theme spec supports such meta-themes. (you can still mix and match > theme components in arbitrary ways if you like). Ah. Maybe not so bad. But the actual code would be located in each app, right? > > If you mean that a novice user shouldn't have to look at all those > > options, there could be a checkbox: "[X] Show advanced options"...? > > The basic structure how options are layed out is affected. With this > work-around the fundamental options are still not that readily > available/nicely arranged as they could be. What about a button: "Advanced" (or some strange little scary looking icon and a tooltip saying "Warning: herein lies advanced configuration power, be aware!" ;) Anyhow, the button would pop up another window with the advanced options, and both windows could be layouted and designed independently. /Jonatan __ | __ ____ _ ____ |__/__ _____ _____||___ (_) ____ _____| | )(_____|( | )(_____||_____ | (______(_____| ===============|===================================== __| http://kymatica.com |