Fast-user-switch-applet not on panel by default

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Oct 4, 2007, at 2:08 AM, Vincent Untz wrote:
>
> Le mardi 02 octobre 2007, à 21:21 -0400, Thomas Thurman a écrit :
>>
>> On 02/10/2007, Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Perhaps FUSA should just not show up if it finds only one user. As 
>>> soon as there are additional users added, it would show as it does 
>>> today.
>>
>> Sure, we can do that. Anyone want me to add it?

That would be excellent.

> This can be extremly confusing. Someone will add the applet and see
> nothing. Then adds it again. Again. Again. Creates a user. And finally
> sees 4 applets...
> ...

That's a symptom of another problem: to "add the applet", or any 
applet, to your panel makes sense only if you already understand 
applets as an idea. (And calling them "items" in the GUI doesn't fix 
this problem.) "Add to Panel" assumes that people will be bored one day 
and decide to fill their "panel" with "items", selecting whatever items 
look interesting at the time. Ptui.

I think many, many more people would find the panel items useful if 
they were configured from the relevant window -- for example, if the 
"Users & Groups" window had a checkbox labelled something like "Show 
menu for fast account switching". That checkbox was disabled if there 
is only one user account, and it would be much more obvious why it was 
disabled if it was here than if it was a zillion miles away in the "Add 
to Panel" window.

Similarly, the clock could be configured in a tab in the "Time & Date" 
window, the "Tomboy Notes" item could be a checkbox in Tomboy's 
preferences, the presence of the "Trash" item could be a checkbox in 
Nautilus's preferences, the presence of the "Show Desktop" and "Window 
List" items could be checkboxes in the "Windows" preferences, and so 
on.

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