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GNOME 3 comes with a new System Settings environment which ships many
completely new, written from scratch system configuration utilities. The
previously used utilities often contain a lot of developer experience
and so are far superior in terms of usability. To get this conserved in
the GNOME of Oneiric one would need to rewrite these tools completely,
often converting them from Python to C. This will introduce a lot of new
bugs, waste a lot of developer time or the tools get replaced by the new
GNOME tool and many bugs fixed in the old tool get reported again.

To avoid this necessity of the re-invention of the wheel we need the
possibility, at least for Ubuntu, to replace selected GNOME tools by the
separate tools which were used in Natty and earlier. For this we need at
least a possibility to embed Python programs in the System Settings, for
example by some kind of wrapper applet. Even better would be a
possibility to embed general X applications.

The problem came up with system-config-printer. See
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-system-config-
printer-vs-gnome-3-control-center

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed

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GNOME 3 System Settings: Allow Python Programs (or general programs) as 
embedded capplet
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/787694
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