Re: merging applets

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

So, I totally agree that a bunch of capplets should be
merged/deleted/whatever. However, a few points on the subject.
We obviously don't have time to do this for 2.16. Feature freeze
is less than 2 weeks away now. I'd consider this a major feature
change. We also should be doing usability testing and actual spec
writing for how the merging should happen and what the new UIs should
be like. I'm going to be working on writing up som bits about this
soon.

On that note, I don't exactly agree with all the merging suggestions so
far, or with many of the current capplet UIs. However, I would much
rather be seeing concrete proposals and mock-ups, rather than spending
all of my time in a flamewar about the UIs and whatnot. So, I'm not
going to comment on any of them specifically at the moment. :)

-- dobey


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:
> 
> * about-me
> * at-properties
> * a11y keyboard, keyboard and keybindings: merge them in one single
> Keyboard capplet
> * background, display, font, mouse?, theme switcher, ui-properties,
> windows: merge them into a single 'Display' capplet
> * default apps
> * file types, mime-type
> * localization
> * network, url-properties
> * sound: add video device setup and call it Multimedia??
> 
> so, let's the discussion begin