[Bug 6233] New: wincfg Applications tab gui layout is misleading
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Wed Sep 20 03:29:11 CDT 2006
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6233
Summary: wincfg Applications tab gui layout is misleading
Product: Wine
Version: 0.9.15.
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P3
Component: wine-tools
AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
ReportedBy: jrodman at winebugzilla.spamportal.net
Brief:
When using the winecfg application, the Applications Settings tab is somewhat
misleading in that it contains two controls, suggesting a relationship between
these two controls which is special.
As a remedy, I recommend moving the Windows Version control out of the
Applications tab.
Detail:
More clearly, on this tab there are two items. First there is an applications
settings list, which allows one to select Default Settings, or an alternately
added Application, and buttons to manage the applications which are added to
this list. Secondly, there is a "combo box" labelled Windows Version, which
allows the user to select values such as Windows 2000, Windows ME, etc. The
implication of this second control matches the documentation: it informs which
of the many subtly different windows API implementations to conform to.
However, the implication of the first control is that it enables one to add
applications which will be handled as if they were running under alternate
versions of Windows. Because these two controls are presented on a single
tab, an implied relationship is created suggesting that this is the only
Application-specific settable value. It is quite possible that the
documentation for this control explains it fully and completely (I haven't
checked), but the barrier to understanding for me was so high, that I began to
go look for command line options to pass to wine to set other values that I
wished set in an application specific manner.
I believe the usability of winecfg would be improved without usability
regressions (save the transition) if the Windows Version selector was placed
in another tab, perhaps a new one. For the sake of argument, I believe a
System & Libraries tab with two enclosed discrete boxes for the two types
would not have cognitive confusion, although it might be too crowded.
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