System->Administration cleanup

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 24 12:22:06 UTC 2008


Hi,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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.

Right: that's what I like best about it. At the very least, even if
its decided to keep the utilities in the menu rather than using the
control center, the same structure in terms of categories of
applications could be kept: this would have the benefit of reusing
thinking and work done upstream.

But my personal preference would be to have the control center and fix
any problems in it.

In the end, I guess all this discussion and work should take place
directly upstream anyway, ideally.

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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