The new default kirigami sidebar view is still a bit glitchy and a work in progress, and slightly confusing to my mind.
Especially for the benefit of upgraders from 16.04, I think we should consider setting the default to the already familiar icon or tree view.
That's definitely key. A slow but efficient upgrade in UX will make adoption (and acceptance) easier.
Unfortunately the other available options are plagued with different bugs or papercuts:
As a result, no matter which one we choose, there will be bugs, unfortunately. Since the Sidebar view is clearly the direction that upstream is moving in, my preference would be to fix the bugs there, rather than in the other ones.
Hehe. I'm so used to double click, I hadn't noticed I was doing it in icon view. Not a bother for me clearly, but I accept it's not ideal either.
A papercut resulting from double-click, sadly.
I so wish that we could actually use single-click by default everywhere, but unfortunately most of our UIs that are affected by the setting aren't well-optimized for single-click. See the enormous discussion in T8187 for more on the subject than you probably ever cared about!
@ngraham I'm sorry. I had been distracted by some guests.
So this is how it would look like
Not bad.
Welcome to "System Settings", a central place to configure your computer system.
Try this:
Welcome to System Settings, the central place to configure your system.
Sounds better. Or, you can omit it altogether, as it's self-explanatory what the place is. I don't fancy poorly written redundancy.
The new default kirigami sidebar view is still a bit glitchy and a work in progress, and slightly confusing to my mind.
Especially for the benefit of upgraders from 16.04, I think we should consider setting the default to the already familiar icon or tree view.
Sounds reasonable.
