Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)]

Remco wrote:
> (I could've sworn that I hit Reply to All... oh well, I'm sorry for
> the double emails to you, Greg. )
> 
> I sent the following to Greg an hour ago:
> 
> I think that a simple renaming or merging isn't going to fix this. The
> complete configuration system has to be thought out. Someone
> configuring his computer doesn't want to choose between 30 items in
> each list. But he doesn't want to choose between 30 items in one list
> either. He just wants to configure his:
> 
> * Personal Info
>        - timezone, language, About Me
> * Display
>        - resolution, appearance, screensaver, power saving, etc
> * Sound
>        - which system, which sounds, recording
> * Input
>        - mouse, keyboard, joystick, head tracker, whatever
> * Printers
>        - anything and everything
> * Peripheral Devices
>        - iPod, Zune, PalmOS, syncing, etc
> * Network Connectivity
>        - IR, Bluetooth, Wifi, Ethernet, Proxy, samba, nfs
> * Security
>        - Users/Groups, Keyring, Firewall, Anti-virus
> 
> Any information, like System Monitor, Hardware Information and System
> Log, should move outside the options menus. You're not changing any
> settings with those.
> 
> Package Management doesn't need to be there either. It has a nice icon
> under the Applications menu. An "advanced" button will suffice for
> that. It's not really a setting anyway, so it shouldn't be where it is
> now.
> 
> Maybe another configuration applet is needed: Storage. With things
> like indexing, backups, restore points, partition management and maybe
> even defragmentation. But Ubuntu is lacking a bit with backups,
> restore points and defragmentation. (hoping not to start a
> "defragmentation on linux" flame war)
> 

Thank you for this constructive comment. Technically speaking, it'll be 
very hard to have every section GUIs merged into one (as those are 
different applications). So there is 2 solutions I see :
- Using sub menu for section :

System
` configuration
   | - Personal Info
   |   | - timezone
   |   | - language
   |   ` - About Me
   | - Display
   |   | - resolution
   |   | - appearance
   |   ` - screensaver
   | - Sound
   | - Input
   | - Printers
   | - Peripheral Devices
   | - Network Connectivity
   | - Security
   ` - Disks and Storage
       | - Backup
       | - Partition Editor
       ` - Maintenance

- using some /mini control center Guis/ by section :

System
` configuration
   | - Personal Info
   | - Display
   | - Sound
   | - Input
   | - Printers
   | - Peripheral Devices
   | - Network Connectivity
   | - Security
   ` - Disks and Storage

Some feelings about these ideas ?