Re: Shell vs. Menus for 2.18

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 18:44 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 22:22 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm sure you're all aware about the various issues that have been raised
> > on other mailing lists about the new control center shell.
> > 
> > Personally, I think the most important problems are the usability and 
> > accessibility regressions that it introduces. Some of these are simple 
> > problems, such as it using the incorrect theme colours to draw text. 
> > However, some of them are more difficult problems, such as when it 
> > becomes virtually impossible to use with large fonts sizes. Not to 
> > mention there has not been a proper HIG review of it.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, most of these issues lie in libslab, and I don't see many 
> > of them being fixed before the 2.18 release. Therefore, I would like to 
> > suggest that for 2.18 we use the menu system as default, and leave the 
> > shell as optional. I know many people have worked hard on getting 
> > various bits of the shell ready, but I don't think this is effort gone 
> > to waste.
> > 
> > Although I would prefer the idea of having a single window to access 
> > preferences, I don't think the current shell is yet up to the standard 
> > and quality that we expect from our GNOME desktop.
> > 
> as talked on #control-center, I am ok with reverting to the old menu,
> but let's try to come up with fixes for the issues, and if we can't,
> let's revert before the final 2.18.0, ok?
> 
> Calum, if you're listening, we need you (or someone with a11y knowledge)
> to have a look at the a11y related bugs of the new shell :-)

Yeah, sorry... I know I promised to look at this a couple of weeks ago,
but the people who pay my wages keep asking me to do other stuff :/
Will definitely try to get to it this week.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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