Sorry about this, but I have to gripe a bit about the usability and user-friendliness of PerlMonks.

I just tried to change how my Front page looks for the first time (hadnt changed anything else apart from the node-depth options). What I wanted to do, was just remove 'Other users' from the Front page.
In it's default state, my settings page showed a list of nodelets for the Front page and next to each a box labeled 'add', on the left is a column 'remove' with no checkboxes in it. It seems the only way to remove one of the nodelets currently shown is to first choose all the ones that are already there to be 'added'. Only then can I remove some. (Or of course just 'add' all that are there apart from 'Other users' - same effect.)
This in itself seems a bit spanish to me. (No offence to any spaniards ;)
A side-effect of this is that now the order of the nodelets shown is different, and I have to click 'up' 'down' a lot of times, just to get it looking like it was before I changed anything.
So, my question(s):

1. Did I do it wrong, is there another/easier way to do this?

2. Would it be possible to have the 'default' settings reflect the actual way the site looks when a user is created? It would save so much hassle..

3. On another note, I tried to super search for 'user settings' and wanted to set the sort-order of the answers to 'newest first', but I can't click on the radio-button, seems to be disabled. Or is that my browser maybe? (Opera 6.05 on Win2k)

C.

Title edit by tye

In reply to Nodelet settings usability problem by castaway

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