Re: merging applets

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 11:53 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> On jeu, 2006-07-06 at 16:57 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 
> > So, most people seem to agree on having less capplets, since the
> > Preferences menu is too crowded, and there is lots of confusion for the
> > users (like 3 keyboard applets).
> 
> Combining some capplets is a good idea but it's orthogonal to menu
> issue. 
> Is there any objection to make the shell better and using that instead
> of the stack of menu items used at the moment?
> 
the ideal solution, IMO, would be to use NLD's new control center. It
makes working with lots of capplets quite easily.

> > * about-me
> 
> Note that we have some bugs about merging it with gdmphotosetup
> 
> > * a11y keyboard, keyboard and keybindings: merge them in one single
> > Keyboard capplet
> 
> Seems a good idea to me
> 
I'll send a mockup with the keyboard and keybindings capplets merged
soon

> 
> > * background, display, font, mouse?, theme switcher, ui-properties,
> > windows: merge them into a single 'Display' capplet
> 
> Looks like many things to the same capplet, maybe too much? Maybe mouse,
> ui-properties and windows could go to some sort of "behaviour" capplet?
> 
yeah, sounds good
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>