Re: Replacing control center menus

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:26 +0100, �ienne Bersac wrote:
>   
> > A menu longer that 10 entry is very painful. Often, Gnome properties
> > menu is about 20 entry when you install some additionnal softwares.
> > Gnome is the only desktop which keep using this outdated
> > "control-center". A control center is far more usable and accessible
> > (especially if it provide search).
> >     
>
> This also could mean that we have too many capplets.

Every single time we have this discussion, someone points out that we 
have too many capplets. Despite some good efforts at annihilating and 
assimilating various silly ones, there are still too many for a usable 
menu. In the real world, outside of Pure GNOME, distributor and 
3rd-party (Java springs to mind) added capplets make the menu more unusable.

Given that a) GNOME still has too many capplets, and b) there are 
additional ones that will always be added to the menu, I think making 
access to them as usable as possible is a laudable goal.

Reducing the number of capplets is still a laudable goal, but hasn't 
solved this problem in the past.

--
Andrew