On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:34, Rajko M. wrote:
does. This makes the desktop experience inconsistent and amateurish.
Besides aesthetic experience there is also prevention of missteps. Giving absolutely the same graphic to system management tool is aesthetically correct, but helps new user to accept YaST as normal application and freely do things that can lead to system instability.
It is normal industrial practice to keep commands which use can have dangerous consequences separated by position, color and shape, from the rest of the command panel.
Normal industry practice? Really. Not in any IT job I've worked in, in the last 20+ years. UI consistency and workflow is very important. Mega-corps spend many millions of your favorite currency on ensuring UI consistency across their applications whether the user is in the main user interface or doing admin. Tacking on a admin tool that appears to be completely unrelated and an "afterthought" is something every single UI architect I've worked with fights against. YaST IS a "normal" application in openSUSE (it's one of its major strengths) and should be an integral and seemless part of the user experience... not a jarring experience that stands out as some part of the OS that does not really belong. That said, there is a HUGE difference between a visual element (eg red text while su to root in a terminal) indicating admin access, and an entire subset of the core of the OS that looks completely unrelated and misses out on theming. This visual element and theming is one of the core concepts that drives the GTK YaST development. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org