Re: [Usability] [RFC] Announcing: Control-Center-GUI 0.1

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:
 > 2.10 will include an updated variant of the old ximian OSX style
> flat layout.  It does look ideal with the default arrangement of
> .desktop files.   Jeff, Chrisian raises some reasonable points with
> his tab based design.  The OSX style layout flounders badly when the
> number of capplets grows larger than about 4 x 5.  Enforcing that
> limit requires a white-list or you end up with windows style random
> capplet additions with every new application.  A promising solution
> for the remainder is an 'Other' tab.

Can you clarify what is meant my the "old ximian OSX style flat layout"?

Thanks,
Steven Garrity