Re: merging applets

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 10 Jul 2006, at 11:31, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 18:40 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > 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.
> yeah, no time for 2.16, what we'll do is create the 2.16 branch as  
> soon
> as the freezes start, so that we can start this work on HEAD ASAP, to
> have it all ready for 2.18.
>
> > On that note, I don't exactly agree with all the merging  
> > suggestions so
> > far, or with many of the current capplet UIs.
> I don't agree neither myself :) It was just a quick list to start the
> discussion. As soon as we have some clear ideas, I'll do some mockups.
>
> In fact, I guess we all agree in merging the 3 keyboard applets,  
> right?
> If no one disagrees, I'll start doing the mockup for it.

You might want to run that one past the accessibility guys (cc'ing  
Bill); they may have a reason to want to keep the a11y keyboard  
capplet separate, or have it in a (new, merged) Accessibility capplet  
rather than a (new, merged) keyboard capplet.

If nothing else, the fact that the three keyboard capplets currently  
have eight tabs between them suggests that a simple merge could prove  
to be a usability nightmare, but feel free to have a go :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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