<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><style></style></head><body style="background: #FFFFFF; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hi Guys, I've been looking at the Settings Manager and I've found there are quite a few illogical things - it could be better organised and rationalized. Let's see what I'm talking about: 1. If I'd like to set something about appearance, I have to open 3(!) items: Appearance, Desktop and Window manager. 2. Window Manager has 2 Settings Manager items: 'Window Manager' and 'Window Manager Tweaks'. Personally I don't like Tweaks, just because it sounds a bit 'hacker' style. But it's not the point, it's more important that Window Manager and Tweaks has more tabs, which do not belong here I think. (Details later.) 3. Keyboard and mouse: in conjunction with them there are more options which placed in 3(!) different places: 'Keyboard' and 'Mouse & Touchpad', 'Window Manager' (Window Shortcuts) and 'Removable Drives and Media' (Input Devices). 4. Finally there are some possibility for rationalization in 'Workspaces' and 'Preferred Applications' also. Proposed solutions: 1. Join 'Appeareance' , 'Desktop' and Style tab of 'Window Manager'. See the mockups: <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/1GU13dVx561JuKanBQgZL4">http://ubuntuone.com/1GU13dVx561JuKanBQgZL4</a> <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/5F9Egs5l2jgIVSU8wOLesT">http://ubuntuone.com/5F9Egs5l2jgIVSU8wOLesT</a> <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/0hwFfuQzveb8sAO4aHP7rC">http://ubuntuone.com/0hwFfuQzveb8sAO4aHP7rC</a> <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/3ygBEgTXWhCKp22uBgFvQS">http://ubuntuone.com/3ygBEgTXWhCKp22uBgFvQS</a> 2. Join 'Window Manager' and 'Window Manager Tweaks'. - Remember the Style tab went to 'Appearances'. - Window Shortcuts should go to 'Input Devices' (see later). - Workspaces tab should go to 'Workspaces' (see later). See the mockup: <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/5hJfXo73kHjjjI3qQzLJfQ">http://ubuntuone.com/5hJfXo73kHjjjI3qQzLJfQ</a> 3. Maybe we should create a new item called 'Input Devices' which contains the adjustments for Keyboard, Mouse, Touchpad and Tablets together. (Something like this works well in KDE.) - Window Shortcuts should come here from 'Window Manager' to Keyboard section. (I think everything what belong to the keyboard (especially shortcuts) should be placed here.) - The content of Input Devices tab of 'Removable Drives and Media' should come here to the appropriate section. See the mockups: <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/4cx55j2PFj4aZjzyYJlTc1">http://ubuntuone.com/4cx55j2PFj4aZjzyYJlTc1</a> <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/2YdlA7g5lrHLyoqkAJ2Uej">http://ubuntuone.com/2YdlA7g5lrHLyoqkAJ2Uej</a> 4. Workspaces: remember the content of Workspaces tab of 'Window Manager Tweaks' came here. I think it's unnecessary to use tabs in 'Preferred Applications' because those 4 settings can be placed together. See the mockups: <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/7C61jcllXeuSJZI0Cn7Cfs">http://ubuntuone.com/7C61jcllXeuSJZI0Cn7Cfs</a> <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/1aDa57A5dGAgrV588FP0GV">http://ubuntuone.com/1aDa57A5dGAgrV588FP0GV</a> The Settings Manager could look like this: <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/0RKrcRqegB6o3Z372lwtEe">http://ubuntuone.com/0RKrcRqegB6o3Z372lwtEe</a> I think with these changes we could get a better organised, consequently built Settings Manager. Notice: I did not want to redesign, but only reorganise the Settings Manager.</body></html>