Re: [gnome-love] gnome-control-center

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

jpg2 cec wustl edu writes:

> > > We have been working on  the new control center lately, there are lots
> > > of small taks to help out, just letting you know in case you where
> > > looking for a good small task to get started. 
> > > 
> > > There are also two big tasks open which are to implement the new look
> > > for the control-center :
> > > http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/control-center.png
> > > And to backport the nautilus view that Havoc has been working on in a
> > > branch to the HEAD branch. Nobody is currently working on this tasks.
> > 
> > I don't see how these two things are mutually compatible.  To be more
> > specific, if we are going for the nautilus view of things, the
> > control-center simply becomes a container for each individual capplet.
> > If we want it to be something else, we can do so, but we shouldn't have
> > a too many ways to configure things. (-:
> 
> I agree that it seems confusing to have too many ways to get to the
> configuration settings.  I like the nautilus view, but just have one
> concern--are we going to require you have Nautilus installed in order
> to run the control center?  I love and use Nautilus, but I do know
> quite a few people that use Gnome with other file managers or no file
> manager at all.  I'm not even entirely opposed to requiring nautilus,
> but we should probably be up-front about that.

You can always launch them from the menu, as well.  Hence the desire to
cut down on ways to do things.  I find one of the most confusing things
about Win XP is that there are many ways to get to various control
programs - I'd like us to avoid that problem.

> > ps. Are there are copies of those icons available w/o the Ximian logo??
> > They're pretty cool.
> 
> I believe so.  Aren't those the same icons that are included with the
> Ximian Setup Tools.  I believe that package contains the icons without
> the Ximian logo.

Coolio.

Thanks,
-Jonathan