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Idea #15021: Desktop Customisation, Currently all over the place

Written by longlivethebestos the 30 Oct 08 at 20:13. Category: Usability. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
Currently in 8.10 if I want to change my screen resolution I
have to go to System--->Preferences and if I want to change my background I have to go to the Desktop and Right-click it, Logically you would think that Resolution and screen saver would be in the same place as desktop background, themes and visual effects. So what I'm saying is that when you right click the Desktop there should be an option saying 'Customize Desktop' which have these options when opened ; Theme, Background, Font, Interface, Visual effects, Screen saver and Resolution.

Here is a mock up:
Screen saver:
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/7848/screensaver4zj3.jpg
Resolution:
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/9458/resolution4yj1.jpg

Hope you like and tell me what you think.



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Written by longlivethebestos the 30 Oct 08 at 20:13.
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pepperpupper wrote on the 30 Oct 08 at 21:17
Nice mockup

kreep wrote on the 30 Oct 08 at 21:52
i think it's a good idea.
even better, i think it would make it easier for windows users to migrate while not introducing anything bad.

longlivethebestos wrote on the 30 Oct 08 at 22:21
^ Thats what I was thinking because I moved over from Vista

acer5050 wrote on the 30 Oct 08 at 22:26
love that idea, should be implemented.

sunside wrote on the 30 Oct 08 at 23:43
Hehe, happened to me, too. :) I bet every (ex-)Windows user will look for the screen resolution menu there.

young wrote on the 31 Oct 08 at 00:00
somehow i'm not convinced. i frequently change my desktop background, but i haven't touched my resolution for two years now :-)

longlivethebestos wrote on the 31 Oct 08 at 00:12
^ even so look at how easy it will be when you do need to ;)

ardchoille42 wrote on the 31 Oct 08 at 10:01
Perhaps kcontrol should be returned. I liked the idea of all customization being done in one place, kcontrol allowed this but someone took kcontrol out of kde starting with kde4. This was, in my opinion, a move in the wrong direction.

Ubuwu wrote on the 31 Oct 08 at 10:06
Nice, only resolution seems out of places, that is not really customization, just a one time setting.

vexorian wrote on the 31 Oct 08 at 14:19
"Currently in 8.10 if I want to change my screen resolution I
have to go to System--->Preferences and if I want to change my background I have to go to the Desktop and Right-click it, Logically you would think that Resolution and screen saver would be in the same place as desktop backgroun"

Heck no?

Since when is resolution a customization thing?

I think it is much better the current way, easier to find the "change resolution icon" than to guess it is in the same place as background.

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marci003 wrote on the 31 Oct 08 at 16:24
I agree with the comment above. Resolution has nothing to do with customization. It is the hardware-related setting. And who cares if Windows has this implemented in this stupid way?

Screensaver should be included there, I agree with that. But big NO for resolution.

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ChickenLalah wrote on the 8 Nov 08 at 02:31
I don't like the idea. It'll confuse people. Let's see... "Oh, I want to change my screen resolution. Where do I go? Oh my goodness! It's not here! I'll just click on all the options till I find it!" *5 hours later* "Oh, here it is! It's inside the Customize Desktop option!"

I suggest we'd change it to a window or something where we can have the different options grouped, a bit like the "show in groups" function of Windows XP. That way, we can have the best of both worlds.

Cybercod wrote on the 7 Dec 08 at 06:51
its not "logical" its just a nod to the Windows way of doing things.

Just because you've learned to expect something in a certain place doesn't mean that is the "logical" place for it to be.



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