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

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:58 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 10:14 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > Also, another solution might be to keep the g-c-c API public, but have a
> > whitelist, so that we just list there the panels that we bless and that
> > will be loaded in the g-c-c shell. Others would just be ignored, and so
> > distributions can choose to add the panels they want to the whitelist.
> 
> If the whitelist is changeable (well, it always is, really), you lose.
> You're just shifting the responsibility from the upstream maintainers to
> the downstream maintainers. But it will still be upstream getting the
> blame for the bad design, eg. GNOME will be blamed for the system
> settings being a random collection of bits, when we're designing an OS.

Downstream has emacs and gcc too. It's changeable anyway.
If we're designing an OS, we need better control of our
supply chain.

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Shaun