Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

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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.
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