Mouse and touchpad settings dialog layout

[Nick Schermer]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2011 14:23:07 +0200
> Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've written most of the xfsettingsd code [1] to handle device
>> properties and other stuff, time to start the discussion what we want
>> to show in the interface.
>>
>> Here's my initial idea:
>> http://mocha.xfce.org/~nick/proposal/pointersmokup2.png
>>
>> Obviously the tabs of touchpad (synaptics) and tablet (wacom) hide
>> when the selected device is not of that type. There are a lot of
>> different device settings like working area and other advanced stuff,
>> however xfsettingsd can handle this so we can always provide a
>> property editor (or use xfconf-query) for this and not show it in the
>> general interface.
>>
>> So the question is, what settings do we want in the interface? String
>> changes?
>
> Looks great to me. I would however prefer if the "Disable this device"
> becomes "Enable this device" (enabled by default). Also, if disabled,
> the entire notebook section with General/Touchpad/Tablet should be
> grayed out.

Will do.

Nick