Re: Capplet organization

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:19 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 3/13/07, Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net> wrote:
> > >
> >
> > I actually hoped for _constructive_ comments... do you maybe have an
> > alternative idea? What do you think about the KDE approach?
> >
> 
> I think asking "How can we cram all this stuff in fewer windows ?"
> is the wrong place to start. We need to look at all the preferences we have,
> and figure out
> 
> - which of them are needed
> - which should just go away
> - how the remaining ones can be meaningfully grouped
>
we (at least me) are not trying to reduce the number of capplets just
for the sake of it, we are trying to solve the problem of having many
related settings (keyboard, appearance, etc) split in different windows.
That is what we want to solve. We have been sending lists of ideas, so
I'll summarise:

* too many keyboard capplets, one with all the settings makes sense
* appearance settings (theme, fonts, mouse cursors): do they make sense
together in an Appearance capplet?
* a11y application settings: they probably belong to the Default Apps
capplet, so you set the apps you want to use for specific tasks in a
known place. There is already a patch for this, btw
* network-admin/NetworkManager and proxy capplet: 3 places to set
network settings, with a very technical distinction between them
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>