RE: 2.4: System Tools - Please try them

[Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>]

> - RedHat 9 is not officially supported - it shows a warning. 
>   Lots of the GNOME developers are using RedHat9, so it would be nice
> to fix that.

Yeah, If we were to ship these with gnome we'd want to make sure that we
had support for all the major distos avaliable at release time, as well
as the bsds if possilble.

> - Where are they supposed to show up in the GNOME menu?
>   I had to launch them from the command-line.

They are supposed to be in system-settings:/// but that wont work for me
with rh9. Does AFAIK with vanilla gnome. The problem is that
system-settings: is not listed properly in the gnome menus. What we need
is a top level Settings menu with child items for desktop preferences
and system settings and server settings.

There is a bug open about this against the panel but i don't have the
number to hand.

> - We need to lose the Ximian icons, I think.

Why? It's not like Ximian is using them any more and they are very good
icons mostly IMHO.

> - Runlevel Settings: The icons are obscure and color-coded.

Yeah, I can't actually work out what they are ment to do. The ui for the
redhat services tool is much better IMHO.

> - I guess we want to use the proposed GNOME ask-for-root-password thing
> instead. What's happening with that?

Don't know but it hasn't got a chance of being in 2.4 so we can't start
using it yet. 

> - Boot manager:
>   - The initial window size is too small - the TreeView is smaller than one
> row.

looks perfect to me

>   - Again the obscure and color-coded lightbulb icons.

agreed - they've gotta go

> - Networking:
>   - Again, the lightbulbs.

yeah, here they are ment to activate a deactivate the connections but
that isn't very obvious.

>   - Shouldn't the profile choice be at the top of the screen, if everything
> else depends on it?

agreed

>   - I can't see what device is used for each connection. Surely I need to
> know whether I'm using my WLAN card or my ethernet card?

Yeah this is a problem I noticed too. It needs to let you specify which
interface to use or let you choose from a list, ideally with card names.

-- 
Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>