Re: Control Center 3.0

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 23:59 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've been discussing various things on IRC about what we'd all like to
> see in Control Center for GNOME 3.0. Quite a lot of people are
> interested in this, including folks from the gnome-shell team, the
> Moblin team, Sun and others.
> 
> I think, for starters we all share the same vision. Here are a couple of
> goals I think we are aiming for:
> 
> * a single window approach (no separate capplet windows)
> 
I agree on a single window approach, although I think it would be great
to continue having the capplets as separate apps

> * an 'intelligent' search bar in the shell window (e.g. 'projector'
> matches display properties)
> 
right. So, would the .desktop file of each capplet have to include all
the related tags to that capplet?

> * a common way to change 'system' properties (i.e. a way to become root
> when needed)
> 
that's a cool idea also, and using PolicyKit it should be easy, right?