Re: Extensible Shell

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 11:13 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 23:25 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > 
> > Given that we now have a single window and search feature, does it still
> > make sense to be combining lots of settings into single capplets? Would
> > it be better to take a "do one thing and do it well" approach? I even
> > seem to have difficulty remembering that "font preferences" are found
> > under "appearance", for example!
> > 
> hmm, sounds interesting. So, you're proposing to have a 'Appearance'
> group, for instance, and 'Theme', 'Font', 'Background', etc under it,
> and that opening standalone CC pages?

I wasn't really proposing anything just yet, merely suggesting pushing
more options into single capplets may not be the best approach now that
we are not constrained by having a UI that uses a single global list of
capplets.