Re: merging applets

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

I agree with Calum.

Please don't start merging the keyboard capplets without general
discussion first.  For instance, why wouldn't the mouse capplet be
folded in as well?  And please wait with that discussion a few days
while 2.16/cvs/svn issues stabilize a bit.  


Thanks!

Bill

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 18:18, Calum Benson wrote:
> 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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