RE: 2.4 Proposed Modules - battfink

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: David Adam Bordoley [mailto:bordoley msu edu] 
> Havoc Pennington writes: 
> > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:13:07AM +0200, 
> Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote: 
> >> - The new Energy Saving control panel lets me choose a standby time
> > 
> > /me grumbles about adding control panels...  can't this go in an
> > existing panel, or be right-click on some object instead of 
> a control
> > panel? 
> > 
> > Havoc
> 
> 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.

That doesn't sound very well organised to me. You'd then have most of the
control panels in 2 places (I don't think people see the Nautilus control
centre view normally), and people would be confused that some were in one
place but not in the other. They might think that they were 2 different sets
of control panels handling the same things.

Because battfink has a notification area applet, rather than a nromal panel
applet, I don't see where someone could right-click to add it.

For laptop users I think the Energy Saving settings should be easy to find.

Murray Cumming
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