[Design] [Scooby][Proposal] User Preferences

[Bobby Rullo]

+1 dialog box

I don't like interrupting my workflow to change a setting.

Yes, the user might need to reference something behind the dialog,  
but if it's a separate page that wont help that situation anyway.

As for the concern about space for fitting stuff in:

	a) I don't know we'll have THAT much stuff
	b) tabs help
	c) the dialog box doesn't have to be tiny, it can be a big healthy  
dialog box


On Apr 19, 2006, at 8:30 PM, John Townsend wrote:

> +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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