Unneeded items in System > Preferences

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 16:11 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> Andrew wrote on 20/10/10 07:05:
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> > (This was originally posted as a bug here
> > [https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/663119] but I was
> > advised to discuss it here).
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> > It seems strange that in the same cycle that we have had 'Software
> > Sources' removed from the System > Preferences menu, that we have had
> > around 4 new unneeded menu items added.
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> It's not strange, it just shows that fighting complexity is a constant
> battle. Lengthening that menu, and making it harder to find things in
> it, is the real-world cost of saying "let's make X an option".
> 
> Vish was partly correct in saying that this will improve with the Gnome
> 3 System Settings window. But even with search and better
> categorization, that doesn't solve the whole problem. Someone still
> needs to do the work, for example, to merge "Keyboard", "Keyboard Input
> Methods", and "Keyboard Shortcuts", or to work out where to draw the
> dividing lines (if any) between "Appearance", "Monitors", and
> "Screensaver", and so on.
> 
a lot of this is going on on gnome-control-center upstream. Keyboard
shortcuts is now Keyboard, the old Keyboard panel is now Region (and
could perfectly get some improvement from what we talked about input
methods and keyboard layouts at UDS), there's a new user accounts panel,
and also a sound one from gnome-media.

Still need lots of work and design though