About having to find the different setup tools in the applications menu or system settings panel, I can share a couple thoughts :
1/ In the past it seems that a number of optional applications (i.e. gparted) found their way into the config panel if installed, and not if not installed. It worked 6 months ago, why couldn't it still work ? 2/ About the remote desktop server, that's the kind of thing a newbie user may need to activate easily to get remote support (I do give benevolent support myself to a number of newbie users). A newbie user may have no clue that this feature even exists, where to find it etc. Making it obvious in the system Control Panel is a good way to help the newcomer find things she may need. 3/ Same rationale would apply for easily configuring personal network shares, or checking the hard disk health, etc. Shouldn't this be the case, the very existence of a Control Panel would be of little interest. After all each and every tool could be found separately from the apps menu, isn't it ? Kind regards. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/858888 Title: [Oneiric] Poor man's control center Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Upgrading from Natty to Oneiric, and furthermore, comparing Natty and Oneiric's machines, it's really impressive to notice how many features have been lost in Gnome's Control Center, making Oneiric's one truly a "Poor man's control center". For example : - No Screen Saver config in Oneiric (this one misses SO MUCH !) - No Connection Window DM (GDM/LightDM...) config in Oneiric - No Remote Desktop config icon... - No "personal network shares" icon... - No CompizConfig integration... - No HD utility icon... - No Gparted icon... - No Synaptic / Package manager icon... - No system monitor icon... - No Computer janitor icon... - No Network tools icon... - No logs viewer icon... - No password and keys management icon... Many icons lead to poor or incomplete panels (energy / screen are very poor...) So WTF is left ? Is this the new iPad control panel or whatever ? OTOH: - The default applications are set in a completely stupid place ("System Information") And OTOH: - 2 different "Keyboard" and "Keyboard layout" icons in 2 different sections of Oneiric's CC: Makes no sense - 2 "Ubuntu One" icons in Oneiric's CC: why not three ? And OTOH: - "Displays" and "Startup Applications" have migrated into the User Menu, where they have nothing to do (and will be very rarely used for most people except executives using videoprojectors for presentations, most of which don't use Linux anyway...) so we congest and clutter a menu with useless stuff for no reason. What a mess ! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.92-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308 Date: Sun Sep 25 15:01:09 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-04 (20 days ago) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 19.92-0ubuntu2 gnome-bluetooth 3.1.92-0ubuntu1 indicator-datetime 0.2.95-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/858888/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
