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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:55 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 07:32 +0200, Michael Terry wrote:
> > So as the Deja Dup maintainer, life will go on when you drop support.
> > Worst case, I can just make the panel a dialog.
> > 
> > But dropping the existing API feels like a frustrating bait and
> > switch.  It was not clear (at least to me) that this was your
> > intentional all along, so myself and others made plans and put effort
> > into making panels.
> > 
> > Maybe next time you could whitelist the plugins you want or force
> > people to compile with -DI_PROMISE_I_AM_BLUETOOTH so that 3rd parties
> > don't waste time.
> 
> I understand it's frustrating, but I don't remember anyone asking
> whether this API was considered stable, or anything of that kind. We
> have a couple of people working close to full time on the
> control-center, so those questions would certainly get answered.
> 
> We thought that third-party developers would put some work into
> integrating their functionality within the control-center, instead, we
> were stumped when we saw the "Input methods" panel, which was a straight
> port from GNOME 2.x instead of something integrated in the Region &
> Language panel.
> 
hmm, where's that Input methods panel code? We indeed want it go through
design and integrated into the Region & Language panel