RE: Control Center 3.0

["Nick Richards" <nick linux intel com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bastien Nocera [mailto:hadess hadess net]
>Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:45 PM
>To: Nick Richards
>Cc: 'Rodrigo Moya'; 'Thomas Wood'; gnomecc-list gnome org
>Subject: RE: Control Center 3.0
>
>On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 12:37 +0000, Nick Richards wrote:
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: gnomecc-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gnomecc-list-
>> >bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Moya
>> >Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 6:08 PM
>>
>>
>> >> * 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
>>
>> In particular this would be handy for us in Moblin as our current plan
>is to
>> put a lot of settings from a number of different sources into this
>> interface.
>
>If you intend on using the GNOME control-center shell for Moblin, we'd
>also need to make sure only relevant settings are shown, and
>"OnlyShownIn" keys are respected. For example, you wouldn't want to show
>GNOME's Bluetooth preferences when Moblin already has a native version
>of it.

This is a very good point and something we'd certainly want to have. It's
quite likely that we'd want a different categorisation as well as a
different selection - similar to our app launcher - which is I think
currently done by a heroically large rewriting of .desktop files.

Nick