Breadcrumbs can be mistaken for a tab bar

[Alan Jenkins]

1. Look at the panel at the top of the screen. Click on your username.
2. Select "user accounts" from the menu.

A window opens - see screenshot. At the top, there is "All Settings" and "User accounts".

I'm not used to Ubuntu. (I use KDE more). My first impression is that this is some sort of tab bar, with two options. If I remember my interfaces right, I think Mac users might have an even stronger impression of this. And I'm not particularly expecting a two-item "breadcrumb" navigation bar, because I haven't done any navigation; I've only just opened a new window.

As a result, while exploring the dialog, our user clicks on "all settings" to see what the other tab means. He's rewarded with a sea of icons (the gnome control center :).

A second level of frustration comes in, because this is a bit like starting a navigational file browser at a specific directory, and then accidentally going "up" a level. But unlike Dolphin/Konqueror, Firefox or Nautilus, there's no quick "back" button to reverse the mistake.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu0.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 17 21:15:29 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3
 deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu2
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu5
 indicator-datetime 0.3.94-0ubuntu2

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, that got reported before, see bug #952889