On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 17:23 +0530, shirish agarwal wrote:
> ok, see the thing is simple. The panel is too full to accommodate 2
> more icons.
It doesn't need to. If someone does a particular task very frequently,
they can add applets/launchers to the panel. If that is the case, the
space on the panel is well used.
> In fact I'm of the opinion that we need to somehow open up the
> right-click context menu so users should be able to put any
> capplets/launchers they use quite a bit.
That is what the desktop and panels are for.
> A lot of people like me who come from windows would be looking for
> things in familiar places.
We don't cater for Windows users, we cater for GNOME users.
> The modesetting display capplet in notification tray, the whole of
> display properties so one can change things on the fly, seeing a
> movie, seeing a .pdf etc. hence atleast to me it makes sense.
Why would you change resolution manually when you want a movie, or read
a PDF? I'm still struggling to see a use-case for frequent resolution
changes. I change resolution relatively frequently (when I connect my
external monitor), but I have a tool which changes resolution, font
size, wallpaper and so on in a single keypress.
> I find it extremely challenging to traverse through 3 menus in order
> to get a simple thing done, hence if the display capplet is there
> which has everything from brightness, contrast,
> resolution-modesetting, themes etc. it would be pretty cool
Brightness and contrast are monitor settings, GNOME can't control those.
That leaves resolution and theme. Thomas Wood is working on an
Appearance capplet which covers themes, colours, and fonts. I've been
planning on adding ICC profile selection to the Resolution capplet which
would make it a Display capplet.
Ross
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