[Design] [Scooby][Proposal] User Preferences

[Matthew Eernisse]

+1 dialog box.

If stuff is even moderately well organized, you can fit it all in a 
pretty small dialog box. The Firefox prefs panel is a good example of 
fitting a large array of options into a small area.


Brian Moseley wrote:
> On 4/19/06, Priscilla Chung <priscilla at osafoundation.org> wrote:
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>>I have two proposals on where the user preferences can appear: in a dialogue
>>box OR in a preferences page.
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> i prefer the dialog box. i can't think of a desktop app that opens a
> new window for me to configure settings. the dialog box is very
> obviously for an ancillary task that is interrupting whatever i might
> have been doing before, and there are a limited number of options for
> me to take to get the dialog closed and off my screen. that just feels
> more righter to me.
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