Re: gnome-control-center: Determine categories by .desktop category?

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 13:24 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> For what it's worth, the New New control-center shell that Rodrigo has
> been talking about potentially using in 2.18+, that was written for
> SLED 10, already does all this.
> 
> -- dobey
> 

Hi dobey,

If the SLED 10 control center will be part of one of the next gnome
releases, there is naturally no need for such a change in
gnome-control-center. Did you already decide this? (in this case, my
sidebar patch wasn't needed at all...)

> 
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 18:22 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > Denis Washington wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Looking into the gnome-control-center code, it seems to me that the
> > > categories for the view are determined by the directroy structure inside
> > > of the "Preferences" menu directory. Wouldn't it be more practical if
> > > the category of a preferences item was determined by a category written
> > > into the "Categories" property in the .desktop file?
> > > gnome-mouse-properties, for instance, already has "HardwareSettings" in
> > > it's Categories value; we could add more categories, like
> > > "PersonalSettings" or "AccessibilitySettings", to the other .desktop
> > > files. This way, the preference entries can still all stay in the same
> > > menu directory, and the control center view would anyway be nicely
> > > categorized.
> > Sounds like a good idea, especially for your revised control center 
> > shell. I think overall the screenshot you posted earlier shows something 
> > heading in the right direction, so keep up the good work! I hope we can 
> > create a few more categories (or re-categorise), such as 
> > AppearanceSettings for Background, Theme and Font capplets.
> > 
> > -Thomas
>