Il giorno mer, 31/10/2007 alle 12.57 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto: > On 10/30/07, Luca Ferretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Stuffing more and more things into the preferred applications capplet is > really > not the way forward. I'll end up like gnome-volume-manager if we > continue this... > > Really, we need a single search tool that can talk to various engines.
Matthias, this is not the issue I was trying to settle. Of course the GNOME Desktop needs a new default search tool, that ideally should talk with the user's preferred engine or the one available on system (and I hope it will be the best available tool to search in my data), but I don't think we should lock out any other alternative. What if I like Google Search? It's an available solution for Linux/GNOME desktops, but I don't think we'll never include it as backend for this future tool. What if I will dislike that tool and I'll want to use another? Maybe the new tool will obsolete all others? OK, I will always able launch my preferred tool from its menu entry under Application menu, but I'll not able to quickly hit the "Search" button on my keyboard or choose Places->Search. It's just like the gnome-main-menu applet that shows the search entry only if you have beagle (at least the last time I tried)... And about the growing size of Preferred Application capplet, yes, it's true, but could be physiological if we like to provide a reasonable degree of choices to users (by now only 6 applications). It's the only available place to setup default applications that don't open files. Maybe we should change the UI using a list on the left, as suggested by HIG if you have a lot of stuff[1], to choose the section (web browser, email client...). This could allow to merge this capplet with gnome-volume-manager[2]>, something like http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/ but of course with less steroids. But this could mean that currently the capplet UI is not well scalable, not that this is a reason to give up an useful (IMHO) feature. So, IMHO, "the capplet is a mess" and "we'll have a better tool" (BTW when?) aren't good reasons to dump this feature. The GNOME Desktop is a product that distributors, vendors, admins and users should be able to configure (with a reasonable amount of prefs, of course) and hardcoding a program (both gnome-panel and gnome-setting-deamon directly launch gnome-search-tool) isn't a great example for a product adaptable to customers' requirements ;-) [1] see figure 6-25 at http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/controls-notebooks.html [2] just a note: gnome-volume-manager stores stuff unrelated with removable stuff. See printers, scanners, and input devices. Really, what's the reason to run a command when you plug an USB mouse? And, if any, shouldn't this preference placed in Mouse tool? _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
