Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 04.10.2007 17:35, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 21:07 +0200, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > On 01.10.2007 19:44, Denis Washington wrote:
>
> > > Depends on whether we may want to add preferences for other kinds of  
> input
> > > devices there, like touchpads, drawing tablet or even joysitcks/gamepads.
> >
> > Personally, I'd prefer having separate capplets for keyboard and "other
> > input devices" or somesuch. There are lots of keyboard options (I'd
> > actually put keyboard layouts there as well), and as Bastien pointed
> > out, keyboards seem to be sufficiently different from other input
> > devices that this makes sense.
>
> I'd be more inclined just to have a separate capplet for each device
> (except, perhaps, Mouse and Touchpad)-- and ideally dynamically hide the
> capplets in the control centre/main menu for devices that aren't
> attached, although I'm not sure that's easily possible right now.
>
> The tablet and joystick control panels I've used, on Mac and Windows at
> least, are usually multi-tab affairs in their own right, so not really
> suitable for squeezing into an existing capplet IMHO.  Hard to judge
> until we see some specific examples of tablet and gaming device capplets
> though, I guess...

True. I get the impression that nobody really has a good idea of what
a universal input devices capplet might look like, so maybe it would
be best if we started by merging keyboard, keyboard a11y, and
keybindings.

Jens