On 1/3/07, Manu Cornet <<a href="mailto:lmanul@ubuntu.com">lmanul@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi and Happy New Year to all! While discussing with the Desktop Team several times in the past, we considered dropping the Ubuntu-specific patch for the "Add to panel" dialog, but we had never really reached a conclusion. Since I'm the one who wrote it, I thought it'd be best if I was the one to suggest dropping it :-) Pros: * Although the patch was good at the time it was written, upstream took the best of it by adding my "Search as you type" entry (so the patch has been very useful in convicing them to do that!). Here is a screenshot:     <a href="http://www.manucornet.net/pub/addto_upstream.png">http://www.manucornet.net/pub/addto_upstream.png</a> I think that whether the rest of the patch (making a 2D layout) makes sense or not is pretty much a matter of taste, but the search box was really the nice feature. * Decrease the delta with upstream. * The code is simpler: my patch used some GnomeCanvas stuff, added a few files just to get the nice rounded rectangles, etc. The one-dimensional applet list is just simpler to code and more straightforward. * The search box made by people upstream actually works a bit better than the one I wrote, since it also works in "Application launcher" part (looking for applications). Cons: * We lose the applet categories. * The two buttons for "Application Launcher" and "Custom Application Launcher" at the top are nice (but it'll be easy to port them to the new upstream dialog). What do you guys think? I have also seen that the control-center has been redesigned (just type gnome-control-center in a terminal in feisty), following the work made by Novell. Do we want to have the same kind of plans for the "Add to panel" dialog? Cheers, Manu -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop</a> </blockquote></div> Hi Manu! I'm really saddened that they are going to drop that patch, I think it was a really awesome patch! Can they implement a better way, to not to remove the patch, but to have it as an option, like a gconf entry as a switch, similar to gnome-session logout dialog does? Speaking of your gnome-session logout dialog patch, I hope it too will not be dropped.. Regards, Joel -- Carpe Diem