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

[Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>]

Hi Jody,

El vie, 04-06-2004 a las 11:09, -0400, Jody Goldberg escribió:
> 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.

I agree a lot here, and I'm very committed to integrating correctly g-c-
c and g-s-t, so I'd be really glad to talk about it in the guadec

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