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The last item on the fly-out panel "Control Center" is "All Settings" which takes you to a tabbed display where all of the "Control Center" items appear again interspersed with many other items. This suggest that all the items are settings, and to me obviates the need for the term "Control Center".

In any case, the choice of which items to include on the fly-out is dubious. Personally, I don't think most users would change any of the selected settings in their average browsing session. So making selected items prominent by duplicating them there gains you nothing, and actually winds up being confusing (seeing the same setting in multiple places). I would argue that you need not allow changing any settings from the flyout panel. Instead put an item for each tabbed heading in the "All Settings" display. Oh, and keeping "Signout" and "Status".

Whatever you do, the layout of the "Control Center" should be more compact. The entire panel should fit on a small screen without scrolling.

Opening the fly-out should have a keyboard shortcut (suggestiong: , - borrowing from Mac keyboard shortcuts).

  • Vlad replied to this.

    MalcolmCook I am getting a lot of use from control center as a quick access menu (theme/region).

    I know other users take advantage of safe search toggle, private session link and CSS if they are playing with it.

    I think we can remove Instant Answers as that is rarely toggled. Let us know if you would like to see some other preference exposed here.

    Cool. I'm sure you'll have a broader range of user types and usage stats than I possibly could, so I definitely defer to your observations. What do you think about the idea of just calling the fly-out "Settings", making it more compact, and giving it a keyboard shortcut?

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