Appearance Capplet Ideas

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Various people have suggested an all-in-one appearance capplet might be 
a good idea to try and reduce our proliferation of these settings over 
many different windows. Unfortunately, no one has so far come up with 
any good mockups (other than "let's cram all the current capplets into 
tabs"). So, I put together a glade file organising our existing options 
into the following categories:

* Theme - Anything to do with saving, installing and removing themes
* Appearance - Colours and styles
* Fonts - Fonts to use, and rendering options
* Desktop - What to display on the "Desktop" (i.e. root window)
* Options - "Look and Feel" options that don't fit into the above

A few of the screens could do with cleaning up and simplifying (Fonts 
for example). What are people's opinions on "Advanced" buttons so that 
we can keep the main tabs clean and simple?

The other things that are missing from the current layout are cursor 
settings (themes), and also any link to sound themes for the Themes tab. 
Perhaps cursor themes should be added to the Appearance category, 
underneath icons. I'm not sure how any link to sounds for the Themes 
page should work.

Screenshots are on the wiki page[1], along with a few notes and ideas. 
Please feel free to add any points of importance. If people would like, 
I can also upload the glade file.

Comments? Questions?

Regards,

Thomas

[1] http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings