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Legacy control panel applets

Submitted by Turbo on June 3, 2008 to Aesthetics, Legacy, Usability

Many of the control panels options are XP-style applets (called "property sheets", ie: Windows Firewall Settings, Sound Settings), living side-by-side with the new integrated pages, which provide a familiar navigation pattern and help guide the user through logical options (called "task flow", ie: Choose desktop background, User accounts).

Redesign the legacy property sheets in the control panel as task flow pages.

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Discussion (6 comments)

ryanlm wrote on June 4, 2008, 12:22am

No excuse to run out of time this time.

Urbane.Tiger wrote on June 11, 2008, 10:33am

not all property sheets address a single task, some are used in multiple tasks

that being said that property sheet needs to go in without question, if suggested they be replaced by VS2008 style property grids - if your not a property developer that wont mean much, I guess, but believe me its better than the property sheet approach. There is a proviso tho - it is fairly easy to add property sheets to a property box, I have extra property sheets for Alternate File Streams and you see additional property sheets on .exe's for things like digital signatures - that functionality must be retained

Turbo wrote on June 16, 2008, 6:57pm

Changed solution description.

DeathSeeker wrote on June 18, 2008, 2:31am

Would be easier to follow possible further development if you posted a suggestion for each instead of refering to them as a group.

+1 I love the Control Panel Spoke and Hub pages. Death to Property Sheets!

LittleTijn wrote on August 25, 2008, 2:52am

I'm going to grab my torch! Those Property Sheets seriously need to die!

irv4oh wrote on September 18, 2008, 8:14am

I especially hate the related error that all property sheets must be closed before closing the main window. I get this in Device Manager all the time. Even worse, property sheet don't show in the taskbar so they're harder to close.

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