System->Administration cleanup

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Fri Oct 24 11:59:26 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 12:54 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> 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.

I saw this today as well:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2008-October/msg00001.html

I assume the shell is the same thing as the "Control Center" that you
refer to?

Thanks,

James





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