[Desktop12.04-Topic] control center cleanup

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Rodrigo Moya wrote on 10/10/11 17:09:
> 
> On sáb, 2011-10-08 at 17:44 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> Rodrigo Moya wrote on 06/10/11 15:23:
> ...
>>> * language-selector: we just need ability to install languages
>>> and input method support in the region panel to completely
>>> remove this
>> 
>> I'm working on the design for that one. 
>> <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-clean-up-language-support>
>>
>
>> 
yeah, been seeing your changes to the live.gnome wiki page. I'm
> starting to work on all the missing pieces in the region panel
> soon, so will keep you posted of the progress of the
> implementation


Cool. I've completed a draft design now:
<https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/RegionAndLanguage#inline-installation>

>>> * software sources: also maybe as part of the System Info
>>> panel, which does updates?
>> 
>> The System Info panel shouldn't be in System Settings in the
>> first place. It isn't settings.
>> 
> It is settings. It allows you to force fallback for the session if
> you don't have a supported video card, it allows you to select
> default applications and now, in 3.3, has the Removable Media panel
> included, so it really does allow to set things.


I was referring to the System Info panel in Ubuntu 11.10, which shows
only the Ubuntu version and basic hardware specs.

> It's completely misnamed though. I guess just 'System' or
> something similar should be enough
> 
> ...


It might be possible to find a name that explicably covers default
applications + removable media ("Applications", perhaps?), but I doubt
it. I think the reason Windows has an "AutoPlay" panel and OS X has a
"CDs & DVDs" panel, separate from file handler settings, is probably
that people wouldn't find them otherwise.

And it's necessarily even less likely that there is any name that
could be given to a panel containing OS version info, hardware specs,
session fallback, default applications, *and* removable media, that
would make all of them easily findable.

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