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Hi there, As may be becoming obvious we’re interested in
improving Control Centre at Intel both to make it better for GNOME and so we
can use the shell to manage settings in a future version of Moblin. As such I’ve
been looking at the caplets and potential categorisation. We plan to do some
more usability work on this sort in the new year so it’s in no way fixed. This also includes all of the settings on the device. We’re
interested in managing all the user’s settings within a single interface.
We believe that two categories are useful, Your settings and Device settings with
a third, application settings available but not necessarily shown by default. Your settings ---------------- Accessibility Fonts Language Preferred Apps Security/passwords Sharing (file, upnp etc.) Update system Wallpaper Your contact details Device/Hardware settings ------------------------------- Bluetooth Date & Time Displays and projectors External devices Keyboard Location and GPS Network Power Printing Sound Trackpad and Mouse This category would also contain the settings from: Default Printer - merge with printing Network Proxy - merge into network Keyboard shortcuts - merge with keyboard My Web Accounts ---------------------- Only available if we don't aggregate these into one magic setting
within Your settings category. (i.e. the existence of this category is a
fallback). Note: these functions are quite Moblin specific. Calendar Email IM Photos Status updates Sync Application settings ------------------------ We’d like to expose an entry point to settings and
preferences for every app on the device, although this would be deprioritised within
the interface to avoid potential settings flood. This sort and should work surprisingly well in the unified
design that Thomas Wood and I have been playing around with. I’d
certainly be interested in seeing people’s views on this. I’d
certainly hope that we’re working in the spirit of stuff like this http://live.gnome.org/SystemSettings Nick |