GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 48458
Navigation in configuration tool
Last modified: 2009-08-16 15:13:28 UTC
- In the Shortcuts section, when viewing as a "Novice" user, none of the options displayed seem particularly useful in isolation, and should probably be removed. In particular, the "Context:" pull-down menu is empty and appears to be malfunctioning. - The "Miscellaneous" tab in the Miscellaneous section has way too many options when viewed as an "Expert" user. (It causes my gnomecc window to be resized to nearly the entire screen height.) It should be split into multiple tabs, perhaps arranged around the following themes: Windowshading, Stacking, Root Window Menu, Other. - The "show variable names of each customization option" should be moved from the Miscellaneous section to the Meta section. - The following options should be moved from the Expert level to Intermediate, for consistency: - The full list of contexts in the Shortcuts section - "Number of milliseconds before removing tooltips" in Miscellaneous -> Tooltips ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:18 ------- Bug blocks bug(s) 44365.
most of these suggestions seem reasonably. however the claim that the last point should be done "for consistency" baffles me. consistency with what?
> - "Number of milliseconds before removing tooltips" in > Miscellaneous -> Tooltips Well, this is already fixed... > - The full list of contexts in the Shortcuts section Well, I say "consistency" because it seems confusing to be offered the ability to alter only *some* of the bindings. It would seem logical that it would be an all-or-nothing deal; either I figure out how to change these things, or I don't. Perhaps it's a bad way to describe it, but the terminology isn't as important as deciding whether or not it's confusing. (It confused me when I first played with it with the wrong Meta setting, if I remember correctly.)
Oh, I see. The logic behind this was that tweaking the keymaps for the window buttons is more likely to screw up your system, and since most people don't event want to touch them, why show them to them..
Hmm. It does not seem outrageous to keep the buttons separate, since changing their function is probably one of the more arcane customizations one could make. Keeping Root Window and Border together with Global, Window, and Title, also seems natural.
As fixed as it will ever be..