Re: 2.4 Proposed Modules - battfink

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:11:28PM -0400, David Adam Bordoley wrote: 
> Putting this in a right click menu is like "saying this is hidden and you
> don't need it." I think the current problem with the control center is that
> its dependent on the apps menu. If we are really concerned about  the
> menu becoming too long, we should probably just default to showing a select 
> few prefs
> dialogs in the apps menu and include a link to the nautilus view of the
> control center for a more complete set of pref dialogs. This has the
> advantage of making the most commonly used prefs easily available (fonts,
> themes) while making the more obscure ones easily findable without crowding
> the menu. 

A solution like that is fine with me, I'm just saying someone needs to
proactively fix this. The broken menus in 1.4 didn't just happen
overnight, they happened by slowly creeping in modules that added
stuff without thinking through the big picture.

Havoc