Re: Control Center Shell and libslab

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 28 Nov 2006, at 19:18, Jim Krehl wrote:

> > I spoke to Rodrigo and Seb about this briefly on IRC. Rodrigo also
> > suggested forking SLAB, but I would still like some feed back from the
> > current authors about their opinion. Seb is in favour of just going
> > ahead and making changes, since the code is now in GNOME cvs.
>
> There is a fair amount of Novell specific stuff in the slab, but the
> intent is to make it more generic.  The patches that have been 
> submitted
> so far do not seem like that big of a deal to incorporate.  It might
> help if you could elaborate on why the patches can't be accomodated.

I really just wanted to get some sort of permission before committing 
random patches! The patches so far affect only the appearance, and I 
thought this might be the one area Novell would be most sensitive 
about.

> However, I may be speaking out of turn as they mainly impact the 
> portion
> of libslab under Scott Reeves's control.  About the context menu.  Is 
> it
> really useless?  I can see that the favorite apps menu item is, but the
> others seem useful to me.

At the moment the context menu provides a way to launch the item (same 
as normal click), help (unavailable), add to favorites and add to 
startup programs. Out of these, I can only see that help might be 
useful in the context of the control center, but this seems such an 
un-obvious place that I doubt it's really helpful. In other places I 
can see these items as being useful, but not in control center. As 
there are no plans (as far as I know) to include the application 
browser and others, maybe an option to turn the context menu off makes 
sense for Gnome?

-Thomas