System-level preferences

[Susanne Lefvert]

That is a good idea. I have 2 solutions in mind:

1. Separate dialog for system preferences.

Pros: Easy to reuse and scale.

Cons: What about options that overlap like logging.  Users would be 
confused if they have to open 2 different dialogs to deal with preferences.

2. An additional "System" option in the list to the left in the 
preferences dialog with its own panel that can be reused in other 
components.

Pros: All preferences at the same place.

Cons: If we have a lot of system preferences, this will scale poorly. 
Also, we still need to do some additional UI work to add the panel to 
another dialog.

I like alternative 1 better but I have to think about it some more.


-- Susanne


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Thomas D. Uram wrote:

> Susanne:
> 
> The venue client preferences panels look great.  Have you thought about how we could 
> handle system-level preferences, like the NTP-server preference requested in this bug report?
> 
> http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/AccessGrid/show_bug.cgi?id=1189
> 
> Maybe we need a system preferences panel that would be applicable in other UI components, too.
> 
> Tom
> 
>