Re: merging applets

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 16:45 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 16:57 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Since we didn't come to any conclusion at GUADEC, let's discuss it
> > there.
> > 
> > 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).
> > 
> > So, here is the list of current capplets and my initial proposal for
> > merging them:
> 
> May I drop gnome-system-tools to the mix too? I don't know up to which
> point there makes sense to have "administration" and "preferences"
> separated. I'd even mix some things with the g-c-c stuff (for example,
> having proxy settings and network settings separated sucks), if it isn't
> a problem for ISVs.
> 
yeah, administrator settings should also be taken into account I think.

> One of the main obstacles in the g-s-t side was the authentication
> schema that forced the tools to request the password before doing
> anything, but when the PolicyKit patch is committed, users will be able
> to access to a locked down GUI [1], with the possibility to unlock it,
> one of the benefits here is the ability to mix locked down (i.e:
> administrator) stuff and non-locked down stuff.
> 
that's great to know, and I think we should have a list of the things in
g-c-c that are also in g-s-t and see how we can merge them. Could you
please send us that list?
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>