Re: switching to g-c-c shell? [Was: Re: Control center and capplet merging]

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 7 Jul 2005, at 15:50, Bryan Clark wrote:


> The more categorization I see the on the desktop more and more I am
> convinced that we should be basing our entire desktop off of a search
> paradigm.  Picture Seth's little storage applet and typing "How do I
> change my fonts", it'd be pretty easy to get someone the right capplet
> then - sorry, total tangent.

I know I tried to describe how Spotlight does this on OSX the other  
day, but this screenshot says it all really... type in a keyword and  
it shows you all the matching preferences, as well as highlighting  
all the matching capplets:

http://www.gnome.org/~calum/spotlight.png

Cheeri,
Calum.


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