control-center organisation [Was: gftp]

[Jeff Waugh]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 00:15 -0300, Fábio Mendes wrote:
> Are you guys considering to use gnome-control-center (with --use-shell,
> preferably) to organize user configuring apps?

Not exclusively, but it would be nice to have an easy way to open it.

> Gnome-control-center seems to a have
> perfectly decent way to quickly/easyly categorize stuff, but it's not
> used since gnome folks prefer to put all configuration apps in the same
> bag. I'll check how easly one can hack gnome-control-center, whithout
> touching the source (I'm not a C programmer!). And as new configuration
> UI comes up, the current desing will one day became unmatainable...

The number of dialogues has more to do with incremental growth and lack
of top-down design than anything else. Upstream are working on paring it
back to around 10 dialogues, hopefully losing some of the remaining root
vs. non-root distinctions along the way.

--use-shell is just another view onto the existing dialogues, so to
improve it substantially, you need to improve the whole thing anyway. :)

This is best addressed upstream, but I'm sure we can contribute to the
design/implementation process.

(Please start new threads and change the Subject when bringing up new
things, it makes it easier for everyone to track the discussion.)

Thanks,


- Jeff

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