Re: Ungnomifying the control center

["William Jon McCann" <william jon mccann gmail com>]

Fwding a message from mpt.  He was having issues getting it to the list...

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 11:50 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> <snip>
>> It might make sense to stop shipping the shell, since we've never
>> really
>> used it in upstream GNOME -- don't know what people think, though.
>
> We could also disable it by default, and have whoever is interested in
> fixing its horrible design (eg. code not UI) ideas just do it.

X-Auth-OK: mpt
Return-Path: <mpt myrealbox com>
Received: from mpt [82.3.242.151] by myrealbox.com
	with NetMail ModWeb Module; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:38:14 +0000
Subject: Re: Ungnomifying the control center
From: "Matthew Thomas" <mpt myrealbox com>
To: gnomecc-list gnome org
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:38:14 +0000
X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module
X-Sender: mpt
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <1225147094 40d5f1fcmpt myrealbox com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-NIMS-Flags: 133 1225147080

Bastien Nocera wrote on 24/10/08 10:53:
>
> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 11:50 +0200, Vincent Untz
> wrote:
>...
>> It might make sense to stop shipping the shell,
>> since we've never really used it in upstream GNOME
>> -- don't know what people think, though.
>
> We could also disable it by default, and have
> whoever is interested in fixing its horrible design
> (eg. code not UI) ideas just do it.
>...

I was researching this on Friday, and realized that Gnome is now the only m=
ajor operating environment that doesn't have a unified control center.

Windows Vista, Mac OS X, and KDE all have a single window for changing syst=
em settings. All of them organize settings by category. All of them let y=
ou search by name or by synonym (for example in the KDE System Settings, =
searching for "proxy" highlights the "Network Settings" panel). And all o=
f them let you navigate back and forward between panels, so you only have=
 one window to close when you're finished.

Gnome is a long way behind on this at the moment.

Cheers
-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/