Re: Confusing desktop preferences preference dialogs.

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Not to play the smartass here, but 'when?' I'm worried that we're
creeping up on the beginnings of freezes for 2.2 and we still have this
particular theme confusion, as well as no icon-theme capplet that I've
seen [which is a necessity for the new icon-theming stuff.]

Luis [otherwise, 2.2 is shaping up well from a 'no major breakages'
perspective :) 

On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 01:22, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu> writes:
> > I am running gnome control center head right now and I have two very
> > similar menu entries in desktop preferences that are only slightly
> > different.
> > 
> > The first is called "window focus." This menu entry gives me the option
> > to change the focus behavior of my applications.
> > 
> > The other entry is called "windows" it also gives me the option to
> > change how i focus my windows but also has options for "window border
> > appearance" (shouldn't this be in the theme capplet, oh wait it is),
> > title bar font (wait this preference is in the font capplet too) and
> > some an option to change my window manager (why would i ever want to do
> > that?)
> > 
> > This is really confusing me...why do we have two similar but different
> > capplets, one of which seems to be a mishmash of options.
> > 
> 
> Don't worry, they're both going to die. There will be just one, in the
> control center, with window focus and a couple other WM options.
> 
> Havoc
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