2007/12/5, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Usability people! > > I am thinking of Gnome-Terminal not just as any terminal, but as the default > terminal; the terminal we generally anticipate people to be using when they > are new to the GNOME desktop; I am not thinking of it as a power-user > terminal, for which Profiles have many reasons to exist. > > With that in mind, I will start my quick ramble. It is common for a program > in GNOME to be configured via Edit -> Preferences. However, the terminal, of > all things, considers itself different. Instead, we have Profiles, and every > profile has its own preferences. For a terminal that should really be simple > to operate, that strikes me as over-engineering that ultimately leads to a > usability issue.
I'm using a single profile at home and multiple at work to indicate which terminal is a remote shell on a device or which is my scratchbox session or where is the serial console. All are color-coded and have distinct icons. I haven't really found the single profile usage that much of a problem (I hardly ever touch the settings anyway), but I do agree that perhaps the "modify profile" consept isn't the most obvious way to change settings in that scenario. -- Kalle Vahlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by http://movial.fi Interesting stuff at http://syslog.movial.fi _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
