[Telepathy] New designs for "Welcome to Empathy" and "Accounts and Settings" windows

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Thu Aug 6 06:14:36 PDT 2009


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Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 06/08/09 13:37:
> 
> That looks very good, I think, except for the placing of the "Start
> Empathy when I log in" and "Open new chat windows in" controls. Those
> do not belong in the "Appearance" pane. Well, at least the first one
> doesn't.

True, it is a bit awkward there.

> I'm sure there will be other choices like that, global for Empathy. It
> would make sense to add another pane for those things, like "Misc" or
> "Empathy". In that pane, you could have other settings as well, like
> default directory for downloads, etc.
>...

I agree that if there were more general settings, it would make sense to
have a "General" pane. But it would be awkward to have a pane containing
only one setting. And we shouldn't invent settings *just* to give "Start
Empathy when I log in" some friends. :-)

How is the download destination currently selected?

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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