Re: control center plans, etc.

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On 20 Jun 2001 11:44:38 +0100, Dick Porter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:16:03PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm considering implementing a simplified control panel scheme as
> > discussed in this thread:
> > 
> >   http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-May/003210.html
> > 
> > Basically there are just a few simple features:
> > 
> 
> I think the whole control centre concept needs a complete revamp.
> 
> Instead of just being able to tweak settings of individual components,
> there ought to be "task-based" settings too. For example "set up desktop"
> would start with colour schemes and themes, gmc or nautilus, some settings
> for the file manager, and maybe some panel configs; another task might be
> "set up palm pilot", which would do the device config then go through
> conduits.

I am not sure about this for the timeframe we want to do it. I think
this should be revisited after we have a control center that is beeing
used out there. Windows XP removed the "task based" control center from
their previous beta for some reason (or at least we could not find it
anymore), maybe it didn't worked well in usability testing.

But if you want to give it a shoot, feel free to do ;-)

regards,
Chema