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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 11:31 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 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

It was in the im-chooser-gnome3 package in Fedora 15, which has since
been disabled. The source still lives in im-chooser upstream:
https://fedorahosted.org/im-chooser/wiki/ImChooser

Cheers