Desktop settings dialog ideas

[Emdek]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 23:26:46 Davide Bettio wrote:
> The main advantage of your idea is that users are used to a similar UI  
> so it
> might be more usable for users that are already used to Windows or KDE <  
> 4.

Yes of course, this is mainly for users that were already using it in the past.
But also for users who want to perform some actions connected to the desktop in one central place but without launching additional application.



> On the other hand this paradigm was introduced by microsoft a lot of  
> time ago

I guess that it is not important who did it first. ;-)



> and it isn't logical for us. We are just used to it. Plasma team is  
> working
> hard to push innovation to the desktop, and breaking with the (broken)  
> past is
> part of our evolution.

Maybe this is not perfect solution and like everything it has drawbacks but fighting with users habits is often very hard.