Re: Control Center Shell

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

Thomas Wood wrote:
> Denis Washington wrote:
> [...]
>   
> > Nice, I like your work! Your right, coding is better than criticizing,
> > so I'll start working on the clear button right NOW. ;)
> >
> > Another thing that certainly needs work is the context menu for the
> > control center entries. The "Add to Favorites" button is for instance
> > practically useless because we don't use the SLAB menu by default, maybe
> > it's availability could be a build or gconf option. Also the bold "Start
> > ..." makes sense for Windows users, but is not common for GNOME. The
> > entries may also need some icons for a better appearance. I'll try to
> > work on all those things and submit some patches soon.
> >     
>
> Wow, I didn't even realise there was a context menu. However, it does
> seem perfectly useless as it stands at the moment. Do we really need it
> at all?
>
> I think the clear button is a nice idea. I still don't understand the
> search entry watermark. My initial reaction was that it was a clear
> button, or a drop down menu or something.
>
> -Thomas
>
>   

I guess the watermark is often used in SLED so a user of that distro is 
"trained" to recognize such an entry as search entry, so it has a 
re-recoginition effect there. In GNOME that's naturally not the case, so 
it is useless. By the way, maybe we could meet in IRC some time and hack 
a bit on the control center shell? That would be pretty nice I think :).

Denis