[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Configuration dialogs
From:       fourhead <fourhead () geekspot ! de>
Date:       2005-09-25 10:38:21
Message-ID: 200509251238.21178.fourhead () geekspot ! de
[Download RAW message or body]

Hmm, I don't exactly know how you mean that. When you say that you click 
somewhere and a menu pops up, what do you mean? A context menu? A 
configuration dialog?. I'm not sure if this would add more complexity than 
you think. I'd just put a "configure" button into the toolbar which opens a 
clean, simple config dialog, not this mess that you find today. Some programs 
have 5+ entries in the "Settings" menu. This is just a mess. It should be 
kept simple. You should offer the most needed config topics on the main page, 
and have something like an "Advanced" button that extends the dialog so you 
can make some further settings if you really need them.

Tom

> I was playing about with the GIMP, and I thought of a really cool way to
> make it easier to configure stuff on KDE. It takes its inspiration from the
> screenshot tool, and it would probably be implemented in DCOP or something.
>
> Here's the behaviour then:
>
> 1) Click on the "configure" button on the kicker
>
> 2) The mouse cursor turns into a crosshairs (like when you're taking a
> screen shot)
>
> 3) You click somewhere on the screen (in this example I'll use the toolbar
> on konq)
>
> 4) The configure applet finds out the name of the widget that's at the
> screen location you just clicked on (I heard this is a planned feature in
> DCOP), and what program it belongs to
>
> 5) It looks up both of these pieces of info in a database and brings up a
> menu that looks like a right-click menu with all the configuration info it
> can find (in this case it would be "configure toolbars" in the konq menu,
> and the contents of the "settings" menu for konq. It would also have
> entried for "colours", "icons" "style"
>
>
> If we took another example....say you clicked on the title bar
>
> It would bring up a menu that included the contents of "configure window
> behaviour" and also the contents of konq's settings menu. It would also
> include the "colours" control centre module, with the "active title bar"
> colour selected
>
> If we had something like this, then we wouldn't have to venture into the
> control centre and get lost in the tree structure when we want to configure
> something (I still haven't worked out how to get the macOS style menu bar
> or change the background image in konqueror file browser. If someone could
> tell me, that would be nice :P )
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> kde-usability mailing list
> kde-usability@kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability
>
>
> End of kde-usability Digest, Vol 30, Issue 15
> *********************************************
_______________________________________________
kde-usability mailing list
kde-usability@kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]