Re: [Ayatana] Redundancy : Preference's Menu and Indicator's options

["frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 13:57, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 15/02/11 13:39:
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> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:36, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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>> The items in the status menus are shortcuts. Sometimes someone will go
>> into the clock menu to change something about the time, or the sound
>> menu to change something about the sound, etc, before realizing that
>> the menu itself doesn't contain the setting they want. But that's
>> okay, because at the end of the menu there's a shortcut to the
>> relevant settings pane.

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> As i understand your explanation, it would make sense to have 1
> "configure XYZ" entry in each status menu!?
> I would like that and i would find it quite consistent, compared to
> having several configuration links in one menu, 2 in an other status
> menu and only 1 on the bottom of yet another, while the Session Menu
> e.g. has not a single configuration item on the bottom of its menu.

>...

There's no real benefit from trying to have exactly one settings item
per menu.

except for the point of consistency perhaps?

derived thereof, learnability, simplicity ...

> For the Me/Messaging Menu, that would then mean there would be an item
> such as "configure messaging" on the bottom.
> This again would lead to a unified messaging configuration wizard or
> page, where i can pick out the part or type of messaging i intend to
> configure.
>
> Is that too far off?

Yes, first you would need to implement either a unified messaging
client, or an API for multiple clients to share the same settings window.

or something like the attached mockup perhaps?

OTOH i'd love to see an About Me view, with an EDIT button somewhere.

I don't see the point of having a settings window for Empathy, for example, i'd only use it to enter account details.

This i can do on an About Me page, too, and Empathy can fetch its data from there. AIUI, it's all about storing the information to accessible variables, which will be used by whatever connection manager is authorized to use them in the end.

Also, i don't believe that multiple clients need to be considered here, only the ones delivered by default, imo.

That's why i'm not yet understanding the problem..

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