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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: How to Organize Control Centre Stuff
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2002-02-21 3:16:37
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Last I checked I have 76 in mine...

-Benjamin 


On Wednesday 20 February 2002 10:04 pm, Emerald Arcana wrote:
> On February 20, 2002 09:52 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > those who can't find it always seem to go to the desktop settings, some
> > try the icon panel next ... the real kicker seems to be that "Mouse" is
> > under "Peripherals". once i point people to the mouse kcm, most of them
> > realize how obvious that is but also add that they would never have
> > thought to look under "Peripherals" ...
>
> It's been forever since I've taken a look at the Control Centre.  How many
> options are there?
>
> The main thing:
>
> Is it TRULY necessary to have a heirarchy in the Control Panel?  If people
> never think to find "Mouse" under Peripherals, maybe we can just get rid of
> peripherals and just have a straight list of Control Centre modules.  There
> might be an issue if the list is really long (say, over 20 items) since it
> wouldn't fit on small screens.  However, it WOULD be easier to browse
> because it would be a list you could scan quickly from top to bottom. 
> (It's certainly easier than having to collapse each subtree to look at
> what's inside).
>
> Maybe Jono can write this one down as a "possible solution".  We'd have to
> user-test this one, though.  (It feels like the usability of the Control
> Centre has beem beaten to death, resurrected, and then beaten to death
> again many, many times.)
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