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

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 09:37 +0200, Ted Gould wrote:
>> Could someone please articulate the GNOME position for downstream
>> distributors of GNOME technologies?  It seems to me the previous
>> position was to use the extension points instead of doing vendor
>> patches.  Yet, without extension points it seems that vendor patches are
>> the only solution there.
> 
> For the gnome-control-center, if it's worth having, it should be worth
> having upstream, and in gnome-control-center directly.

In the context of Ted's request, one obvious case to bear in mind would
be integrating file sharing via Ubuntu One. That is a system service on
Ubuntu, and should obviously have its preferences in the "System
preferences->Sharing" panel.

Is this the kind of thing you would accept upstream, or is it better to
provide a hook for Canonical to do so easily downstream?

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org