GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 61507
Bell settings are confusing
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
The bell settings under keyboard should be in sound, or at least better explained (it took us a while to figure out what the heck that tab was for). Better yet, the bell tab should be removed altogether or moved into the cracklets section of the control center.
Setting priority to Enhancement.
You are of course free to use bugzilla as you see fit (re: marking this as an enhancement), but the usability project currently has this marked this a critical or blocking change for the release of GNOME2.
seth: a suggestion from someone who does a /lot/ of triage: throwing around words like 'critical' and 'blocking' without very carefully considering what you are saying is counterproductive, especially for a 'leading from behind' project like the UI project, which provides no resources for fixing of the problems that they identify. Note: I'm not passing judgement on this particular bug; just pointing out that it would be very wise to use blocker, etc. as sparingly as possible. Two other long term suggestions: (1) use a keyword like 'usability_blocker' or some such to identify and track every thing you feel are blockers; this way as we get closer to a 2.0 release you can go back through and find the ones that you feel are important but have been neglected or re-triaged by developers, and perhaps raise the issue again. (2) this may be more of an issue for gnome-hackers, but the reason that there are both priority and severity fields is to differentiate between 'silly' enhancements (say, 'make gnomecc do my coffee') and things that are important/urgent but still technically enhancements. I'm resetting this to High, mainly as a demonstration of how I think this should work. And a third, again [and this one is speaking purely personally, not as a Ximian employee] I can't stress enough that without providing resources, the gnome-ui stuff occupies a very, very backseat driver role, with limited capital. It is in your best interests to focus those resources and capital only on the most important of issues, and as those issues are resolved, and people begin to say 'hey, these UI guys have some really good ideas', /then/ move on to other things that may be 'blocker' but generally appear less important to the average hacker. Good luck... GNOME needs you guys, probably worse than it realizes- Luis
Heh... setting this to minor :) Priority still High; Seth, we should probably sit down and talk briefly (perhaps with gnome2release team as well) about how prioritization for usability issues will be handled.
Just doing some tagging of files I've already triaged. Filter on 'luis doing GNOME2 work' to get rid of the spam.
The explanation in the new keyboard capplet isn't great, but its adequate that this isn't a serious problem. Marking fixed.