[Design] [Scooby][Proposal] User Preferences

[John Townsend]

+1 dialog box.

The only time I would get worried is if the user needs to reference  
something on the screen behind the dialog to make decisions in the  
dialog. That would upset the user, but I don't think we have that  
case here.

--> towns


On Apr 19, 2006, at 7:18 PM, Matthew Eernisse wrote:

> +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:
>>> I have two proposals on where the user preferences can appear: in  
>>> a dialogue
>>> box OR in a preferences page.
>> 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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