On Ter, 2006-12-12 at 17:31 +0000, Andrew Sobala wrote: > Jonathan Blandford wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:26 +0100, Étienne Bersac wrote: > > > >> A menu longer that 10 entry is very painful. Often, Gnome properties > >> menu is about 20 entry when you install some additionnal softwares. > >> Gnome is the only desktop which keep using this outdated > >> "control-center". A control center is far more usable and accessible > >> (especially if it provide search). > >> > > > > This also could mean that we have too many capplets. > > Every single time we have this discussion, someone points out that we > have too many capplets. Despite some good efforts at annihilating and > assimilating various silly ones, there are still too many for a usable > menu. In the real world, outside of Pure GNOME, distributor and > 3rd-party (Java springs to mind) added capplets make the menu more unusable. > > Given that a) GNOME still has too many capplets, and b) there are > additional ones that will always be added to the menu, I think making > access to them as usable as possible is a laudable goal. > > Reducing the number of capplets is still a laudable goal, but hasn't > solved this problem in the past.
I see a _lot_ of room for merging capplets with a single glance. For instance (i'm sure there's others I missed): 1- "keyboard", "keyboard shortcuts", "SCIM input method", and "mouse" could be merged into a single "input devices" 2- "menus & toolbars", "fonts", "theme" => "applications aspect" 3- "sreen resolution", "screensaver", "desktop background" => "Display" 4- "PamOS devices", and "removable drives and media" => "external devices" (or something) 5- *Everything non-GNOME*, move into a separate "Other" submenu. Else if you want searchable capplets we already have deskbar. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list