Re: Lock'n'load! [Was: Integrating system tools in GNOME]

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:32:56AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> The issues so far have been:
> 
>   * Lack of distro buy-in - why commit to something in the Desktop release
>     that few of our downstreams will ship? I don't think this argument is
>     going to be taken seriously during the 2.8 process.
> 
>   * Lack of integration design - we can't just dump a bunch of icons in the
>     System Tools menu, we have to figure out how to approach user and system
>     preferences properly in future (so vendors can use the same scheme with
>     their own tools if they have to as well).

You've pretty much hit the nail on the head here Jeff, although I'd
say that (2) is significantly more important than (1).  We (the CC
maintainers) have talked about this and there is certainly a
willingness to merge in some system configuration with the provision
that it can be done tastefully.  Stuffing in 10 more icons isn't
going to help anyone.  At a meeting in Jan Seth was tasked with
doing some thinking on how to handle the layout in a shell and
menus.  We should definitely sit down at guadec and hash things out.