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[Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

I find the brush metaphor to be rather confusing, personally speaking.  I
wouldn't mind a "return arrow" however.  In any case, reverting a field is
one thing, but what about reverting something like your entire gnome panel?

What if the Appearance Preferences dialog allowed you to not only customize
your experience, but also included the ability to reset specific changes?
Could (should?) gnome panel be included as part of the appearances
experience?


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:33 AM, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <
frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Sohail, thanks for this note!
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:47, Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Greetings to the Aytana List,
>>
>> I had a colleague point something out to me today; he had managed to
>> accidentally delete the Session indicator applet from his panel, and was
>> wondering how to restore the applet.  Two issues made this difficult for
>> him:
>>
>>    1. There is no UI for restoring the panel to the default
>>    configuration.
>>
>>
> Now is a good time to talk about configuration defaults and how to get back
> to them, after changing a setting manually. Every setting or option should
> have a "return to default" button somewhere close, either for the entire
> page of settings, or for the individual setting, as it is in compiz config
> settings manager (
> http://wiki.compiz.org/CCSM?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=advsearch.png.. note the brush for "return to default")
>
> This way, even if i break something by customizing it, which should
> actually not be possible and would indicate a design flaw, i can still
> restore the default state which works.
>



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