Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 17.09.2007 14:55, Denis Washington wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:51 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > * what do we do with keyboard shortcuts? Should it just continue on its
> > own?
>
> I would leave it as separate capplet, as it also doesn't fit well into a
> general Input Devices capplet IMO.

Consider that there is an enhancement request for keybindings to also
support mouse buttons and stuff [1] and things might suddenly look
very different...

> > * about-me needs a good redesign, so what about heading towards
> > about-me/online desktop integration? Also, should about-me help manage
> > accounts to be used by different apps? That is, it would be nice to have
> > a central way for mail, calendar, etc, etc accounts? Maybe this is too
> > long term, but it sounds like a good way to make about-me useful.
>
> That would be cool. about-me is pretty much useless in the moment, it
> would be great if that changed.

I'm very hesitant about touching about-me at the moment. The direction
it should evolve in is completely unclear to me, and I don't really
expect that to change in the near future with all those online
experiments flying around. Who knows, in the end, maybe about-me can
be replaced completely by something like Soylent.

Jens

[1] ... even though I can't seem to find it at the moment [2]
[2] But of course there are bugs 78102 [3] and 386680 [4] [5]
[3] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78102
[4] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386680
[5] Yes, I like footnotes. Why do you ask?