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

[Michael Terry <mike mterry name>]

In a UDS session this week about this control center issue, one
discussed idea was a hard-coded (in source) whitelist or brightlist.

To be clear, a brightlist would be a set of plugins that appear at the
top as "part of the OS" and there's some other section where
everything else goes.  A whitelist would instead just stop anything
else from appearing.

This way, GNOME designers can enforce a set of plugins that only they
want for their OS.  Since it's in-source, it would be difficult for
random third parties to work around it.

But at the same time, other distros that also believe themselves to be
creating an OS can distro-patch the list and have the experience they
want.

Everyone wins, with exceedingly little technical effort.  What do the
g-c-c maintainers feel about that?

-mt