Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Volume Manager for GNOME 2.8

[Curtis Hovey <sinzui cox net>]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 23:19 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> Pat Suwalski wrote:
> > Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> >> One more control panel - ugh. They are like weeds! Worse, apparently
> >> being driven by tarball organization of the release, not by top down
> >> design :-/ cf. "Preferences, System Tools" thread. Not a problem of your
> >> making, but...
> > 
> > 
> > Havoc, I would suggest that this is one of the best control panels out 
> > there. It is very functional, and its content is in no way touched by 
> > any other control panel. It's not like "Keyboard" and "Keyboard 
> > Shortcuts" and "Accessibility->Keyboard". This one actually stands on 
> > its own, IMO.
> 
> Disagree wholeheartedly.  The capplet is just a duplicate of the MIME 
> system and/or Prefered Applications.  It's just a capplet to configure 
> "How does the system handle [blah]".  It isn't really different than 
> "How does the system handle [file type]" or "How does the system handle 
> [service]".

To add to the d-d-l volume.  Sean is right.  I think that from the
user's perspective, even the power user, that the capplet is configuring
how do I accomplish a task.  Interacting the the computer, either by
connecting a camera, inserting a CD, or clicking a file is a statement
that the user wants to do something.

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