Submission details
Legacy control panel applets
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)
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
Changed solution description.
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!
I'm going to grab my torch! Those Property Sheets seriously need to die!
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.
ryanlm wrote on June 4, 2008, 12:22am
No excuse to run out of time this time.