Re: Ungnomifying the control center

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 30 Oct 2008, at 18:04, William Jon McCann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com>  
> wrote:
> > On 24 Oct 2008, at 10:53, Bastien Nocera 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.
> >
> > FWIW, we're actually looking into doing a complete redesign of the  
> > control
> > center right now (from the UI side, but I'd imagine it'd end up as a
> > complete rewrite anyway)...
>
> Cool.  Is the "we" Sun?  I think a lot of us have the same desire.
> Would be good to work together on this.


Yes, the "we" is Sun, and I'm certainly encouraging the people who are  
working on it (cc'ed) to get their ideas into the open as soon as  
possible.

There's certainly nothing particularly Sun-specific about what they're  
doing, they're just not really used to working on this sort of thing  
out in the open-- yet :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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