On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 01:31 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 19:09 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:45 -0500, Natan Yellin wrote: > > > > > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference > > > dialogs together. > > > > > > Off the top of my head, the following preferences could go together: > > > - Keyboard and Keyboard Shortcuts > > > - Network configuration and Network proxy > > > - Appearance, Screen resolution, Screensaver, and Windows > > > - Personal File Sharing (gnome-user-share) and Remote Desktop > > > > I don't know if this is normally part of GNOME or not, but in Ubuntu > > Jaunty with GNOME 2.25, there's a "Pop-Up Notifications" item in the > > Preferences menu. It's for changing libnotify's colors, I think. That > > should also be merged into Appearances if it's part of GNOME. > > Or delete it.. since it serves no useful purpose? (Sorry, that's > possibly flame bait I know!) > > Seriously though.. I'm running Jaunty testing out some graphics drivers. > I have _34_ launchers in the preferences menu. Cut the cruft! That > applet you mentioned doesn't even work properly (it often reports an > error messages when you try to preview). That menu gets worse every release. It hasn't fit on 1280x800 in a while. I just put things I use often in there and add the GNOME Control Center to my System Menu. Works better that way. I think if it reports an error message it's something to do with dbus not being started properly. Er, at least that was the reason one of my friends gave when it threw errors on his machine. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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