Re: some more questions on the control center shell, etc

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 1/24/07, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Le mardi 23 janvier 2007, à 21:56, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> > Playing around a bit more with the control center shell, I have some
> > more questions:
> >
> > 1) I notice that all capplets appear in the add-to-panel dialog.
> > What is the idea behind that ? Do we really think that users have a
> > need to add capplets to their panels ? It makes the list really long...
>
> We can remove this. I'm pretty sure some people are using it, though.
> Adding the screen resolution capplet to the panel can make life simpler
> for many people.

I probably looked before I had the right preferences.menu in place, so it
all came out as a flat list. With the latest upstream preferences.menu,
I do indeed get the capplets grouped by categories, although there is
a fair amount of capplets on my system that still end up toplevel.

I don't think this needs to be removed. We probably just need to complete
the classification of the capplets, and work on the real control center
problem, which is "too many capplets".

One proposal for the add-to-panel dialog, though: I think the grouping
in the tree is not very obvious, currently. It might be easier to navigate this
list if there was some indentation or background color to make expanded
categories more obvious.

Matthias