Re: [opensuse-ux] Redesign of YaST Control Center

On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 18:01 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote:

On Friday 23 November 2007, Benji Weber said:

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On 23/11/2007, Thomas Goettlicher wrote:

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we want to redesign the YaST Control Center. Therefore we are looking for a radical new design.

Please feel free to contribute with mockups and (unconventional) ideas here: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/New_Control_Center

Looking at this mockup, it's almost identical to the "systemsettings" kcontrol replacement (will be default in kde4)[0] and also I believe the gnome app-browser.

I have not looked at how these are implemented, but using them for YaST could be as easy as putting the YaST module .desktop files in the correct places, and adding a few extra fields to the .desktop files. If so this could be the easiest ever major feature to implement.

[0] http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/systemsettings.png

Yup, those of us who have been around a bit longer know that YaST modules were once shown in the KDE Control Center treeview. It should be no big thing to load them into systemsettings too - it uses the same KCModuleProxy class as kcontrol.

But what about the non KDE/Gnome YaST users? Do they stay with the existing controlcenter in this model?

I stayed with both the GNOME Control Center and Application Browser. I find it much easier to find what I need and to browse through what's available. One very misunderstood feature in both CC and AB is the search field. I use it all the time when I know what I'm after. This often results in only one hit and no need to use the mouse (type the search string, if only one result shows up, hit enter and the app will be launched). Learning from the "mistakes" that seems apparent when these were introduced in GNOME, is that a quick tour on what's possible with a new interface must be in place.

Will

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