Re: GUADEC meeting summary

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:20:07 +0200
Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:

> Le vendredi 20 juillet 2007, à 16:25 +0200, Rodrigo Moya a écrit :
> > others:
> > 	* should we use the categories for capplets in the menu? At
> > least, for people using the whole menu instead of the shell, it
> > wouldn't be so cluttered
> 
> It could be tried, but, at least for myself, I have a hard time
> locating capplets with categories. But if you want to try it, do it
> before UI freeze :-)

The submenus appear in Fedora already and in the control center session
we had at the end of the week, even the Red Hat people agreed this is a
bad idea.

> 
> > 	* some people suggested removing typing break and just rely
> > on workrave (very popular it seems).
> 
> Why? The current stuff is simple and working well. Any reason to
> remove it?

Really because nobody can ever find it and it seems very out of place.
It's not really a keyboard option, it's a utility program.

[...]
> > 	* merge desktop effects (from compiz) with display capplet
> 
> Errr. And what will happen when metacity has a working composite
> manager? Or when people want to use another composite manager? This
> should probably not be compiz-specific.

I had lots of similar reservations about this, but since most
distributions will probably include a metacity/compiz combination at
the moment, it makes sense to enable a common interface in the
appearance capplet. However, it should be optional at compile time or
run time so that it can easily be removed if necessary.

Seb, do we have an update on the current patch that fixes some of the
important issues we discussed?

Regards,

Thomas