From kde-core-devel Mon Oct 05 18:17:18 2009 From: Matthew Woehlke Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:17:18 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: RFC: System Settings categorisation overhaul Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=125476677518389 (ooh, the lack of line wrapping horror!) Jacopo De Simoi wrote: > In practice what I suggest is the following: > 1) Put the search box somewhere obvious, above the categories, but > /inside/ the white frame, to make clear it's part of the game and not > some external "I'm never gonna use it" accessory. Give keyboard focus > to it, invite the user to try it out. How do you propose to deal with people that just want to look around and see what is available? I suppose you still have the list somewhere, how do you envision that? I'm not sure how well it would work, but one possibility might be to present a 'cloud' of top-level categories with search in the middle. Each click takes you to a new cloud of sub-topics. We should allow there to be multiple paths by which to reach a particular module. -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- Q: Why doesn't Fedora provides ponies? -- Benny Amorsen A: Because they're too big to fit in the bikeshed. -- Mat Booth