Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

[Danielle Madeley <danielle madeley collabora co uk>]

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 01:27 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> > #1 -- was this announced/proposed to desktop-devel-list?
> 
> No, because it was only made for one particular module
> (gnome-bluetooth), and by me. The reason we had an external API was so
> that gnome-bluetooth code happen in time for 3.0. And we've reverting it
> to 3.2.

Empathy has some control-center shell integration as well for its
accounts configuration. Or perhaps it's an old version of the API. It
was primarily done for Meego Netbook.

~

Although I endorse design of the core components, I don't think it has
to require the component to exist in gnome-cc. Furthermore, this seems
like a fairly arbitrary limitation. Both major non-free desktops permit
applications to install control-center.

-- 
Danielle Madeley
Software Developer, Collabora Ltd.                  Melbourne, Australia

www.collabora.co.uk