Re: Replacing control center menus

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Ross Burton wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:18 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > The gnome-control-center hackers have been hard at work integrating the 
> > work done at Novell into making a nice shiny new shell for the control 
> > center. This time it is very much more usable, and we would like to 
> > propose that we replace the Preferences and Administration menus in the 
> > System menu with a single link to the new control center shell. There is 
> > always the possibility of adding a gconf key that will allow users to 
> > revert back to the old behaviour.
> >
> > Of course, we wouldn't like to do this without the full support of the 
> > GNOME community, so we invite all your comments and thoughts.
>
> Some screenshots of the new system would be good for people like me who
> are not running a full GNOME 2.17 desktop.

I didn't include screenshots because there is still work to be done in 
terms of making it more acceptable to GNOME users (for example, we have 
patches pending to making it more compliant with the current theme).

However, if you search for SLED control center or application browser 
you will get some idea of how it is going to look.

The main purpose of my e-mail was to gauge the reaction to removing the 
menus and replacing them with a link to a "shell" window. If the 
reaction is mainly positive it will give us the motivation to polish off 
the new shell, and make sure the appropriate accessibility and usability 
audits are completed before switching over.

-Thomas