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

[Michael Terry <mike mterry name>]

On 13 May 2011 10:31, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> So your suggestion is to still have new panels?

Depending on whether you wanted to allow 3rd party panels, you could
use a brightlist or a whitelist.  But yes, a public API coupled with a
whitelist to allow only design-approved external modules.

> 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.

Right.  And this proposal was designed to allow each design team to
decide their own OS's experience easily by patching the whitelist.
The plan to drop the API adds a larger technical barrier that appears
artificial.

-mt