System->Administration cleanup

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Fri Oct 24 11:54:55 UTC 2008


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Matthew East wrote on 23/10/08 14:37:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm working on a design to combine the "Preferences" and
>> "Administration" menus into something more wieldy.
> 
> Isn't gnome-control-center the answer to this?
>...

The Control Center makes scanning the available settings easier, and
avoids the increasingly-meaningless distinction between Preferences and
Administration. And it saves two clicks (or one drag), compared with the
Preferences/Administration menus, whenever you open the wrong settings
window by mistake.

However, the Control Center adds an extra click whenever you access any
settings from it, because you need to close the Control Center once
you've finished. And the "Filter" (eh?) searches only the names of the
settings windows, not their contents or synonyms: for example searching
for "modem" or "wallpaper" returns nothing except a shocked-looking
yellow ball. Both these problems are solvable.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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