On Wednesday 28 November 2007 03:43:01 pm Martin Schmidkunz wrote:
I would like to get your comments on that idea. Please note, that the categorization and the modules were picked by chance. The important thing is the idea, that is behind that. And maybe it is worth to give it a try as it is something no control center has yet. Even Apple doesn't have such kind of thing :-)
It still suffers from having too many intems in one window. I know of a study saying that any list of stuff should have not more than 7 objects in it, in order to be easily "scanned" by humans. Having a window chock-full of icons doesn't feel right. It reminds me of the old Windows control panel. When it first appeared everyone would spend 1 minute finding what they wanted, because they had to look at every icon. We have to have at least a two level structure, like it's now in YaST. Just putting an icon that's used once at most (Language) on the same screen with one that's used three times a day (Software Management) doesn't feel like the best possible usability. Because of this, a Favorites section is a very good idea. Also, we are used to YaST, we know what it does. But new users might find it confusing that there are two "control centers": one is KDE/Gnome control and the other one is YaST. How should someone new to Linux get the difference between KDE Control "Internet and Network" and "YaST networking"? How is this someone even supposed to know there are two of these, doing different stuff? To do the right thing for usability and to keep the mindshare of having YaST, maybe the YaST modules should be fusioned with KDE control, but have distinctive icons, so the users know those are YaST modules. A first idea would be that the icons would have a green hue or a geeko background. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org