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

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:56:26AM +0200, Michael Terry wrote:
> Everyone wins, with exceedingly little technical effort.  What do the
> g-c-c maintainers feel about that?

So your suggestion is to still have new panels?

The purpose of no external API is not to make it more difficult, but to
ensure:
 - control center does everything it should
 - ensure functionality is available across distributions
 - relevant options appear in the place the design team thinks it should
   be; not in yet another panel

So focus should be on ensuring that options are shown in the right
places and that whatever functionality is needed, is added in
control-center in a way it will work for all distributions.

Having another panel does not provide a good user interface.

As explained, no 'java options'.

Even for firewall, if it makes sense, it should be shown where the
designers think it makes sense (e.g. some system/network thing), not
where it is technically easiest.

It seems there is an assumption that no external API is meant to force;
it is not. The purpose is to ensure that the control center options
follows a logic (designed) structure; not have options all over the
place.

If you want additional option in Ubuntu, address this to either the
Ubuntu design team or the GNOME design team. Then the options should be
added whereever the design teams thinks it should go.
-- 
Regards,
Olav