Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 10/9/07, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:57 +0200, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > Plus I find the a11y capplet to be
> > a bit cryptic, and we need better (longer) option descriptions in
> > a lot of cases. Your mockup already improves some of them, but I
> > think we'll need a bit more space still.
>
> Yeah, I know some of the a11y team were involved in the discussion about
> the new a11y capplet (and I missed it altogether), but personally I find
> it completely redundant now-- or rather, I would given a minor tweak to
> the a11y tab of the Preferred Apps capplet to handle the
> enabling/disabling of the accessibility gconf key.  (I can think of a a
> couple of ways we could do that, one explicit, one transparent to the
> user.)
>

When a11y came up in the summit control-center discussion, I think the
overall consensus was that it might be better to depart from
traditional capplets, and instead have a "a11y setup wizard" of some
sort.