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gnome-control-center package

"All Settings" is confusing

Bug #845915 reported by Charlie Schluting ☃ on 2011-09-09

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-control-center	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #643322
	gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Aurélien Gâteau

Bug Description

When searching for a gnome setting, I'll generally use the unity dash. For example, I'll type "keyboard" and hit enter. This brings me directly to the keyboard settings. When the setting I'm looking for isn't there, I see a button labeled "All Settings" that taunts me into clicking it.

What I expect: context. I was looking for all available keyboard settings.
What happened: I'm back at the list of all config possibilities, and have to find "keyboard" again to continue my search within the existing tabs in keyboard settings.

Suggestion: It should really be more like navigation. Even though I landed directly at keyboard settings, the top menu (where "All Settings" currently is) should illustrate that I'm in a sub-section of the control center. It'd make more sense if I saw Home->Keyboard rather than "All Setting" :)

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-09-09

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-09-30:

Thank you for your bug report, that's also something which was recommended by the Canonical Design Team this cycle

Rodrigo I'm assigning it to you, that's something for next cycle, would be nice to discuss with the upstream designer as well

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
assignee:	nobody → Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)

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Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya) wrote on 2011-10-11:

Yes, I already talked with John about this some weeks ago, and I asked him to discuss it with the GNOME designers. I like the idea of this, but not of just having a distro patch, so John, could you please discuss the idea with the GNOME designers, please?

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John Lea (johnlea) wrote on 2011-10-11:

I have posted this bug to Gnome, the url is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661445

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-10-11:

Thanks John

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-10-11

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-10-20

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status:	New → Invalid

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2012-01-10:

Hey, Aurelien, assigning to you since that's the "should use a breadcumb" design bug we discussed about

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya) → Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) on 2012-01-10

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance:	Medium → Unknown
status:	Invalid → Unknown

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-01-10

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2012-02-20:

The issue is fixed in precise with that upload:

gnome-control-center (1:3.3.5-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

* debian/patches/58_ubuntu_icon_views_redesign.patch:
- updated default height to fit on screen (lp: #929585)

  [ Aurélien Gâteau ]
  * debian/patches/58_ubuntu_icon_views_redesign.patch
    - Refresh for 3.5.5
  * debian/patches/60_ubuntu_nav_bar.patch:
    - First implementation of breadcrumb buttons, without pointy arrows for
     now (lp: #933482)