Re: control center plans, etc.

[Ravi Pratap M <ravi che iitm ac in>]

OOps !!

	That's gnomecc-list gnome org for the control center. Sorry.

	Regards,

		Ravi


On 19 Jun 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know of a dedicated list for this, so mailing gnome-hackers
> and control-center maintainers.
>
> 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
>
> I'm looking at doing this against the stable branch, with a port to
> HEAD and merge upstream if people want.
>
> Basically there are just a few simple features:
>
>  - hack the control center to be a shell around one capplet
>    (separate window for each capplet), kill try/revert,
>    kill menubar/statusbar/tree-on-the-side
>
>  - add the "user prefs" virtual folder to Nautilus, icons in
>    here launch a single standalone control panel
>
>  - add the "system settings" virtual folder to Nautilus
>    (contains Red Hat config tools in the Red Hat release)
>
>  - have panel submenus that are equivalent to those folders
>
>  - for future control panels there's no need to use libcapplet,
>    etc., since control panels are just little dialogs they
>    can just be small apps with no embedding involved.
>
> So, what are the current control center plans, how does this fit in,
> how much of this should go in CVS, on what branches should it go, etc.
>
> I see there are some changes in control-center HEAD but don't know
> what the plans are there.
>
> Havoc
>
>
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	Ravi Pratap M         <ravi che iitm ac in>
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