GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 681530
Using grid button for "show all settings" is confusing to some new users
Last modified: 2013-02-19 10:28:03 UTC
We changed the button used to go back to the overview of settings as a result of bug 657043. I think this causes a couple of issues. 1. We don't use this pattern anywhere else 2. The button doesn't indicate the direction of travel and the current system settings uses a horizontal sliding effect 3. User testing has found that some new users don't understand what this button does. This is especially true when the settings panel was brought up without having first visited the overview. Say when you click on Date and Time settings in the shell clock.
Created attachment 230408 [details] system-settings-in-ubuntu.png Ubuntu has had a patch for quite some time to replace the 9 dots button with a breadcrumb style header.
*** Bug 672973 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 236556 [details] [review] shell: use a go-previous icon instead of grid This is what we do everywhere else.
Review of attachment 236556 [details] [review]: Fine.
It won't behave like a back button though, will it? If I follow a link from one panel to another and then press back, I'll be taken to the overview and not the previous panel.
(In reply to comment #5) > It won't behave like a back button though, will it? If I follow a link from one > panel to another and then press back, I'll be taken to the overview and not the > previous panel. We already have a button, the "panel title" as well as a master switch or unlock button in the header, which means that we don't have room for a breadcrumb, which, given that we don't have so many links between panels. We could make the "back" button navigate between visited panels though, without changing the icon (from the patch).
Navigation history is implemented in bug 643322.