[xubuntu-users] Gnome Control Center

[fred roller]

Gnome Control Panel is just a menu set... what program is being called and
is it install-able on Xubuntu.  If it is, should be a matter of setting up
the menu item in Settings and All Setting I would think.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:18 PM, caligaris <libreguarani at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also think designing an app to have access to cloud services for XFCE
> would be ideal, but seen how slow XFCE devs work and every Xubuntu release
> tends to be the same I don't think is a realistic scenario. That's why I
> believe Gnome Control Center is the best option and avoids re-inventing the
> wheel. Also it has great integration with most Cloud services, even better
> than Unity Online Accounts.
>
> -Gio
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Robert Streeter <rstreeter78 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I am all for the cloud integration into Xubuntu but installing Gnome
> Control center is not the way, I don't think that would solve this. I
> believe it would be up to the devs of Xfce they could design an app much
> like gnome online accounts and integrate it into the desktop environment.
> This is a good idea to voice to voice to the devs.
>
> On Oct 18, 2016 10:51 AM, "caligaris" <libreguarani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think you guys are getting a bit off topic.
>>
>> The main reason to use Gnome Control Center is to have easy access to
>> Cloud Services. We are moving more towards the cloud and I find a lot of
>> distros are trying to offer support to these services.
>>
>> For the ones that have been talking about Gnome apps breaking your theme,
>> that will soon change. XFCE 4.14 is moving towards GTK3 and Xubuntu 16.10
>> is already shipping with some xfce 4.14 plugins. By then most XFCE themes
>> should move to gtk3 as well.
>>
>> I think is the right time to include Gnome Control Center to future
>> Xubuntu releases.
>>
>> -Gio
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Dan Juarez <dan at lifeseven.com> wrote:
>>
>> Right, take a look at my screenshot here:
>>
>> http://lifeseven.com/screenshots/DontLikeGnome.png
>>
>> The Mousepad app shows the correct window border where the Gnome
>> Calculator on the right, shows the Gnome window border (ugly). As you can
>> see the Gnome Calculator is not picking up and using the defined window
>> dressing. I don't like that. :-/
>>
>> Like I mentioned earlier, I just uninstalled that app and installed
>> Galculator instead which works/loooks like my other apps.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On 10/18/2016 09:14 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>>
>> How do GNOME apps ignore the widow manager theme? Do they draw their own
>> window decorations or something? (I'm not on my Xubuntu box to check right
>> now.)
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Dan Juarez*
>> dan at lifeseven.com
>>
>>
>>
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