UI freeze exception

[Charline]

Hello Martin and Didier,

We have been discussing adding the system settings to the launcher and 
Documentation has agreed to the change.  We think it is a critical 
usability issue and it should be fixed.

Can this be done at this time?

Thanks,

C.

On 21/09/11 16:22, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 21 September 2011 07:24, Charline<Charline.poirier at canonical.com>  wrote:
>> Jeremy said +1 and agreed that system settings should be added by default on
>> 16.09
> Yes, I gave my +1 because I think that in my role as a Documentation
> Team member I only have the authority to veto UI changes that break
> our documentation or make things more confusing for users. I defer to
> the Release Team to decide if something is actually a good idea. So
> instead of asking the Documentation Team for support, you'll need to
> convince the Release Team since you already have your token acceptance
> from us.
>
> On the other hand, I think it is a terrible idea. As I commented on
> the bug, I believe the user testing is wrong. It is extremely easy to
> discover how to change the background, or change user accounts, or
> change mouse settings and so on. System Settings is much more
> discoverable in 11.10 than it was in 11.04. It may take a user a few
> minutes to figure this out, but that's normal with a different UI. I'm
> good with computers and it took me a while to figure out Android, iOS,
> OS X, Windows 8, KDE, GNOME 2, GNOME 3, etc. and those aren't
> necessarily broken UIs.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha


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