"Defaults" button in every settings screen

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen at iki.fi
Sun Dec 11 23:46:33 CET 2011


Hi

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen
> <jarkko.sakkinen at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen
>> <jarkko.sakkinen at iki.fi> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Andrzej <ndrwrdck at googlemail.com> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> This would work too and would be more flexible than what they
>>> have in KDE. Distribution defaults could be then one of the
>>> profiles.
>>>
>>> /Jarkko
>>
>> And (after reading other mails in the thread) this would make the
>> distribution defaults visible to the user if they were just one profile
>> among the others.
>
> Well, this sums up my ideas for the profile-manager. - Making it a
> more more fool-proof settingsmanager.
>
> Would you guys like to add stuff you find missing on
> https://wiki.xfce.org/design/profile-manager under the proposals
> section? -- then we can discuss it and create a more complete design
> at the top of that page.

I specified my original proposal in more profile manager
compatible way :)

>
> Kind regards,
> Stephan
> _______________________________________________

/Jarkko


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