Re: Replacing control center menus

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> On Ter, 2006-12-12 at 11:51 -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:26 +0100, �ienne Bersac wrote:
> >
> > > A menu longer that 10 entry is very painful. Often, Gnome properties
> > > menu is about 20 entry when you install some additionnal softwares.
> > > Gnome is the only desktop which keep using this outdated
> > > "control-center". A control center is far more usable and accessible
> > > (especially if it provide search).
> > This also could mean that we have too many capplets.
>
>   Agreed.
>
>   But even if we can't get away from a multitude of capplets, there's an
> alternative solution: add an extra level of preferences "categories", as
> we do for the applications menu.

Four clicks to get to a preference window? Sounds a bit excessive.

We had the discussion about the number of capplets already on the 
control center list. It was generally agreed that it would be nice to 
merge some of them, but (as far as I know) all except one of the 
suggestions had problems. And after that, the biggest issue is finding 
some developers with enough time to actually do the work.

I do think using a shell window is easier than a menu, especially when 
it has search and filter features. It is also likely to be more familiar 
to users coming from other desktops.

-Thomas