I think if the Control Panel was added in addition to the two menus, it
would confuse people as well. Perhaps just have the Control Panel by
default, but have an easy-to-access setting that switches it back to the
menus.
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:04 +0100, Milan wrote:
> Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit :
> > On Oct 28, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
> >>
> >> I definitely agree that the non-techie will not understand the
> >> difference between Prefs and Admin. Perhaps renaming "Preferences" to
> >> *username* and "Administration" to "All Users"? Something like that
> >> would be clearer, although then we might want to also rename "System"
> >> to "Preferences"?
> >> ...
> > That probably wouldn't solve the problem. For example, almost everyone
> > who uses a laptop is the only user of their computer, so the
> > distinction between themself and "All Users" would be zero.
> I agree this is not clear to all users and not always very accurate. But
> there are two ideas behind each menu: Preferences, Desktop and Look &
> Feel Setttings; Administration, hard system config. This is far from
> perfect, but I can't find a better classification in the menu form (at
> the moment).
>
> What I would suggest is using GNOME Control Panel: it is the only
> presentation that could be usable by newbies. Advanced users understand
> the distinction Administration/Preferences (when it is cleary respected)
> and will prefer to keep the menus (quicker to use). Maybe GNOME Control
> Panel could be added in System just after Preferences and Administration.
>
> > A longer-term fix would be to use PolicyKit to make everything not
> > require a password unless/until you're actually making an
> > administrative change. Not only would this collapse the distinction
> > between Preferences and Administration, it would also allow more
> > merging of related items. (For example, gnome-about-me could be merged
> > with Users & Groups.)
> You're right. In this long-term scenario, the distinction could/will
> become pointless and problematic. Until then, we would better keep the
> current system, but carefully looking out for new tools coming up that
> would destroy its coherence. Then, maybe a single menu
> ("Configuration"?) could be sufficient, together with GNOME Control
> Panel for those who prefer it. This is largely up to GNOME developers, I
> guess.
>
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