"Defaults" button in every settings screen

[Stephan Arts]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Andrzej <ndrwrdck at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 02:29 AM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I agree, this has bit me several times already. It's way too easy,
>>> for example, to wipe out the whole list of plugins in the panel.
>>
>>
>> And it is also easy to add them again. Personally, I'd say reverting to
>> default settings is almost useless because as a user you just don't
>> know what will happen if you press such a button. The current settings
>> may be much closer to what you really want than the default settings.
>
>
> That's why such mechanism should either work in both directions (load _and_
> save) or be combined with sort of "undo" capability. I agree that the
> "default" button only doesn't really help.
>
>
>>> Personally, I'd love to have some sort of load/save mechanism (with
>>> the "default" setup being on the list of profiles to load). This way
>>> we could even ship multiple preconfigured profiles for different use
>>> cases.
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.xfce.org/design/profile-manager - there were mockups but
>> they are gone now, but this is a related idea.
>
>
> Interesting.
>
> I imagine this would be done per xfconf channel, wouldn't it. I wonder if
> that's not too coarse approach, and if so, what would be the right chunk of
> configuration to save/restore.

Well, per channel would be possible for an 'advanced' configuration.
But the primary goal is making it easier for end-users, with
property-groups (app or function-based) and 'friendly-names'.

-
Stephan