Re: merging applets

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:39 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Which reminds me, this was one of the options we were considering for
> the Sun desktop... had started mocking up a couple of ideas here, but
> hadn't taken it any further:
> 
> http://gnome.org/~calum/screenies/cc-panel.png
> Modelled on the "add to panel" dialog.
> 
this is very similar to NLD's control center

> http://gnome.org/~calum/screenies/cc-places.png
> Modelled on nautilus/filechooser, with both fixed categories, and the
> ability to bookmark "favourite" capplets.  (Another idea would be to
> show recently-used capplets, either as an additional fixed category or
> instead of the favourites, but I never got around to mocking up those
> ones.)
> 
> In both cases, the search box would search more than just the name of
> the capplet-- ideally a description and perhaps the text labels in each
> window, too.
> 
AFAIK, NLD's control center searches also in the .desktop descriptions,
which makes a lot of sense.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>