Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 13:51 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 9/15/07, Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net> wrote:
> >
> > To start the discussion, here is a proposal from me: the "Mouse",
> > "Keyboard" and "Keyboard Accesibility" capplets should be replaced by an
> > "Input Devices" capplet (which incorporates all features of the
> > mentioned dialogs except for keyboard layout management) and a new
> > "Localization" capplet (which, in addition to providing the keyboard
> > layout options, enables the user to choose it's language and locale).
> >
> > I created mockups for both proposed preferences dialogs. They can be
> > found here:
> >
> > http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/input.html
> > http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/i18n.html
> 
> Both of these sound like good ideas in principle. For both of them,
> I think we should do a little more than just regrouping existing capplets,
> but look if the provided control are still adequat and sufficient.
> 
> For input devices, we should take the coming input hotplug capabilties
> into account.
>
how do you mean we should do that?

>  Also, it would be good to handle common input devices like
> more-than-3 button mice and touchpads. Finally, the "Input devices" tab
> in gnome-volume-manager needs to go.
> 
> For localization, it would be valuable to consider the various
> "location picking"
> needs that are currently scattered throughout the desktop (evolution
> timezone selection, clock timezone selection, weather applet, etc.)
> and come up with
> some central location management. That would be a natural fit with the
> Region selection on the l10n capplet.
> 
yes, those apps should be able to just use the capplet, so yeah, this
sounds like a very good idea.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>