Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-15 Thread Toby Smithe
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:09 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
 Le vendredi 15 décembre 2006 à 07:40 +, Toby Smithe a écrit :
  But I hope we do not move settings into other applications; like the
  file manager.
 
 Where else than in the file manager would you expect to find file
 manager settings?

If they are global settings, in a separate applet. If not, well, in the
file manager, of course!

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-14 Thread Calum Benson
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:25 +, Toby Smithe wrote:
 On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 18:16 +, Calum Benson wrote:
  It's fine, but I'm fairly sure that once you learned where the icon
  was going to appear, it would usually be quicker to double-click it
  straight away, than to move your hands from the mouse to the keyboard,
  start typing, and (possibly, depending on the number of matches) move
  your hands back to the mouse again to activate it.  The brain is *very*
  good at recognising patterns (the icon+text) and remembering positions.
 
 This might be the case: but what if it appears down beneath the visible
 section? Then the user would have to scroll, and this is definitely
 slower than typing; especially if they don't have a mouse with a scroll
 wheel (or equivalent).

Yes, I did say (in my earlier mail, I think) that Apple's 'highlighting'
only works well because you never have to scroll.  If we do require
scrolling by default, that's a fairly serious usability impediment in
itself, IMHO.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-13 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:51 -0700, Scott Reeves wrote:
  snip various questions about the new shell ...

 I find the filter feature significantly helps with the “too many
 capplets” issue.  One strength of the new shell is it dynamically
 displays the filtered list of choices as you type (and enter
 launches when you are down to one).

As I commented yesterday, this can actually be counter-productive, as it
means you don't get to learn the initial position of the icon you're
looking for so you can just find it visually the next time.  The Apple
control center, for example, just highlights the matches as you type,
which seems like a better idea IMHO.  (Provided you don't need to scroll
to see some of the matches, which you never do in Apple's shell.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-13 Thread Dan Winship
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:36 +, Calum Benson wrote:
 On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:51 -0700, Scott Reeves wrote:
  I find the filter feature significantly helps with the “too many
  capplets” issue.  One strength of the new shell is it dynamically
  displays the filtered list of choices as you type (and enter
  launches when you are down to one).
 
 As I commented yesterday, this can actually be counter-productive, as it
 means you don't get to learn the initial position of the icon you're
 looking for so you can just find it visually the next time.

Are you actually likely to use any given capplet enough times that you'd
be able to remember where it was between uses? From what I remember of
OS X, I always had to look around a bit to find the capplet I was
looking for.

Also, I don't remember if we're looking at including the SLED
application browser as well, but it works exactly the same way as the
control center does wrt searching, and doing highlighting rather than
filtering wouldn't work well at all there (since there are several pages
of apps).

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-13 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:55 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
 On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:36 +, Calum Benson wrote:
  On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:51 -0700, Scott Reeves wrote:
   I find the filter feature significantly helps with the “too many
   capplets” issue.  One strength of the new shell is it dynamically
   displays the filtered list of choices as you type (and enter
   launches when you are down to one).
  
  As I commented yesterday, this can actually be counter-productive, as it
  means you don't get to learn the initial position of the icon you're
  looking for so you can just find it visually the next time.
 
 Are you actually likely to use any given capplet enough times that you'd
 be able to remember where it was between uses? From what I remember of
 OS X, I always had to look around a bit to find the capplet I was
 looking for.
 
 Also, I don't remember if we're looking at including the SLED
 application browser as well, but it works exactly the same way as the
 control center does wrt searching, and doing highlighting rather than
 filtering wouldn't work well at all there (since there are several pages
 of apps).

Man I hope not.  If I wanted a Windows clone I would run Windows.

Jon

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-13 Thread Toby Smithe
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 18:16 +, Calum Benson wrote:
 It's fine, but I'm fairly sure that once you learned where the icon
 was going to appear, it would usually be quicker to double-click it
 straight away, than to move your hands from the mouse to the keyboard,
 start typing, and (possibly, depending on the number of matches) move
 your hands back to the mouse again to activate it.  The brain is *very*
 good at recognising patterns (the icon+text) and remembering positions.

This might be the case: but what if it appears down beneath the visible
section? Then the user would have to scroll, and this is definitely
slower than typing; especially if they don't have a mouse with a scroll
wheel (or equivalent).

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-13 Thread jaap haitsma

 We've done the same kind of thing (search-as-you-type filtering) with
 the Add to panel dialog in Ubuntu. The point is not to let the user
 remember where the setting he wants lies (does he really care?), but
 to let him find it quickly every time. Isn't it fine if he uses the
 search box each time? That's usually what I do when adding an applet
 in Ubuntu: just type in one or two words then hit Enter. I don't
 remember where the applets I want lie and I don't really need to.

I'd suggest if the control center is getting this shell that also
gnome-applets would get the same shell. This way everything is
consistent.

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi,

I really wanted this feature for some months. Thanks for that job ! Also
some screenshots would be cool.

 Are there any use cases as to why this is better than the menus?

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).

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Thomas Wood
Ross Burton wrote:
 On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:18 +, Thomas Wood wrote:
 The gnome-control-center hackers have been hard at work integrating the 
 work done at Novell into making a nice shiny new shell for the control 
 center. This time it is very much more usable, and we would like to 
 propose that we replace the Preferences and Administration menus in the 
 System menu with a single link to the new control center shell. There is 
 always the possibility of adding a gconf key that will allow users to 
 revert back to the old behaviour.

 Of course, we wouldn't like to do this without the full support of the 
 GNOME community, so we invite all your comments and thoughts.
 
 Some screenshots of the new system would be good for people like me who
 are not running a full GNOME 2.17 desktop.

I didn't include screenshots because there is still work to be done in 
terms of making it more acceptable to GNOME users (for example, we have 
patches pending to making it more compliant with the current theme).

However, if you search for SLED control center or application browser 
you will get some idea of how it is going to look.

The main purpose of my e-mail was to gauge the reaction to removing the 
menus and replacing them with a link to a shell window. If the 
reaction is mainly positive it will give us the motivation to polish off 
the new shell, and make sure the appropriate accessibility and usability 
audits are completed before switching over.

-Thomas
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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Thomas Wood
David Bolter wrote:
 If it is indeed very much more usable, then you have my vote as long 
 usable includes accessible. 
 http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

By usable I nearly meant has enough features to be useful.

Accessibility and usability audits would, of course, be a prerequisite 
to making any changes at all.

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:26 +0100, Étienne Bersac wrote:
 A menu longer that 10 entry is very painful.

Too menu preferences items is painful whether it's in a menu or a
shell window. I doubt that this new UI helps much with that, though I
haven't seen a screenshot. Combining control panels will still be
necessary.
 
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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Jonathan Blandford
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.

Thanks,
-Jonathan

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Ter, 2006-12-12 at 11:51 -0500, 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.

  Agreed.

  But even if we can't get away from a multitude of capplets, there's an
alternative solution: add an extra level of preferences categories, as
we do for the applications menu.

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:51 -0500, 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.
 

I think this is definitely more of the root problem.  It seems very
inefficient to launch one application to then launch the application you
really want to use.  Except for the first time you are configuring the
desktop on a new install, how often are you in tweaking more than one
setting at a time?  The first time configuration problem should really
be handled by gnome providing an, export/import personal desktop
settings, utility.  

Jon

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Corey Burger
On 12/12/06, Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dear Community,

 The gnome-control-center hackers have been hard at work integrating the
 work done at Novell into making a nice shiny new shell for the control
 center. This time it is very much more usable, and we would like to
 propose that we replace the Preferences and Administration menus in the
 System menu with a single link to the new control center shell. There is
 always the possibility of adding a gconf key that will allow users to
 revert back to the old behaviour.

 Of course, we wouldn't like to do this without the full support of the
 GNOME community, so we invite all your comments and thoughts.

 Regards,

 Thomas

Rather than a single link, can we have a several pseudo-links to the
various categories?

Corey
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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Thomas Wood
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
 On Ter, 2006-12-12 at 11:51 -0500, 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.
 
   Agreed.
 
   But even if we can't get away from a multitude of capplets, there's an
 alternative solution: add an extra level of preferences categories, as
 we do for the applications menu.
 

Four clicks to get to a preference window? Sounds a bit excessive.

We had the discussion about the number of capplets already on the 
control center list. It was generally agreed that it would be nice to 
merge some of them, but (as far as I know) all except one of the 
suggestions had problems. And after that, the biggest issue is finding 
some developers with enough time to actually do the work.

I do think using a shell window is easier than a menu, especially when 
it has search and filter features. It is also likely to be more familiar 
to users coming from other desktops.

-Thomas
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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Sobala
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.

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Ter, 2006-12-12 at 17:31 +, 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.

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:33 +, Thomas Wood wrote:
 Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
  On Ter, 2006-12-12 at 11:51 -0500, 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.
  
Agreed.
  
But even if we can't get away from a multitude of capplets, there's an
  alternative solution: add an extra level of preferences categories, as
  we do for the applications menu.
  
 
 Four clicks to get to a preference window? Sounds a bit excessive.
 
 We had the discussion about the number of capplets already on the 
 control center list. It was generally agreed that it would be nice to 
 merge some of them, but (as far as I know) all except one of the 
 suggestions had problems. And after that, the biggest issue is finding 
 some developers with enough time to actually do the work.
 
 I do think using a shell window is easier than a menu, especially when 
 it has search and filter features. It is also likely to be more familiar 
 to users coming from other desktops.
 
But what is being used for the search functionality?  Beagle? Time to go
buy a super-computer so I can change the sensitivity of my mouse :-)  I
know that search/tag/filtering is the hot topic, but how is that better
here?  

Someone mentioned 4 mouse clicks to get to an applet is ridiculous.
With a window that needs searching, we are talking a mouse click, wait
for application to load, multiple keyboard presses, another mouse click,
then you are where you want to be.  That is a lot more back and forth
between the keyboard and mouse than a menu.

Jon

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
Jon Nettleton wrote:
 On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:33 +, Thomas Wood wrote:
 Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
 On Ter, 2006-12-12 at 11:51 -0500, 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.
   Agreed.

   But even if we can't get away from a multitude of capplets, there's an
 alternative solution: add an extra level of preferences categories, as
 we do for the applications menu.

 Four clicks to get to a preference window? Sounds a bit excessive.

 We had the discussion about the number of capplets already on the 
 control center list. It was generally agreed that it would be nice to 
 merge some of them, but (as far as I know) all except one of the 
 suggestions had problems. And after that, the biggest issue is finding 
 some developers with enough time to actually do the work.

 I do think using a shell window is easier than a menu, especially when 
 it has search and filter features. It is also likely to be more familiar 
 to users coming from other desktops.

 But what is being used for the search functionality?  Beagle? Time to go
 buy a super-computer so I can change the sensitivity of my mouse :-)  I
 know that search/tag/filtering is the hot topic, but how is that better
 here?  
 

Please dont dismiss this important technology because one implementation 
is currently sub-optimal for your needs

You dont need a super computer or tons of ram or Mono/Java (or any other 
VM) to run search/tag/filtering - just use a sensible search engine such 
as tracker which is written in C and designed for running on low end 
machines (every other competing OS search system I know of is written in 
a native language as well).

Of course any search solution used here should be open ended but I 
expect the default should be no search until at least  tracker gets 
into GNOME :)

(Tracker is still under proposal for Gnome 2.18)


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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 16:40 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
 On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:26 +0100, Étienne Bersac wrote:
  A menu longer that 10 entry is very painful.
 
 Too menu preferences items is painful whether it's in a menu or a
 shell window. I doubt that this new UI helps much with that, though I
 haven't seen a screenshot. Combining control panels will still be
 necessary.

On that note, I'll just add my usual gripe with categorized control
center shells (including Apple's) that it's generally harder to find
things when you have to scan in three dimensions (headings first, then
top-to-bottom and left-to-right) rather than just one (top-to-bottom)--
and if you don't know what category the thing you're looking for is in,
you can add on an extra bit of scouting around.  If the shell ever needs
scrollbars as well, we're probably just doomed :)

A good search facility will help in some situations, but people rarely
head straight for the search when it looks like it should be easy to
find what they're looking for (as indeed it does in an unscrolling,
nicely-arranged window full of icons).  So by the time they've looked
for an icon and then searched instead, they might have found it quicker
if they'd just kept looking, which, by reinforcing positional memory,
would have helped them find it quicker the next time.

(That's one thing Apple's system preferences search does get right
compared to, say, Ubuntu's similarly-categorized Add to Panel dialog--
in the latter, things disappear and move around as you type, meaning you
don't really learn where the thing you're searching for was actually
located, which would have made it easier to find the next time.)

As others have said, there's also the question of how much sense it
makes to have to fire up a whole intermediate application just to (more
often than not) change one setting in one capplet.  (Perhaps Novell have
some good data about the typical everyday usage of capplets they could
share?)

Cheeri,
Calum.
 
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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi,

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 12:57 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
 On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:33 +, Thomas Wood wrote:
  I do think using a shell window is easier than a menu, especially when 
  it has search and filter features. It is also likely to be more familiar 
  to users coming from other desktops.
  
 But what is being used for the search functionality?  Beagle? 

If you're referring to the control center/application browser shell we
shipped in SLED, it doesn't use Beagle for the search.  It keeps all the
desktop entries in memory and filters them down as the user types in the
search.

 Time to go buy a super-computer so I can change the sensitivity of my
 mouse :-)  

You may want to try a newer version.  0.2.14, due out later this week,
has a lot of performance improvements.  It's always been our position
that if Beagle interferes with your normal system usage, it's a bug.  So
please use Bugzilla to let us know of any problems.

Thanks,
Joe

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 12 décembre 2006 à 17:33 +, Thomas Wood a écrit :
But even if we can't get away from a multitude of capplets, there's an
  alternative solution: add an extra level of preferences categories, as
  we do for the applications menu.
 
 Four clicks to get to a preference window? Sounds a bit excessive.

With a shell window, that makes even more.

 We had the discussion about the number of capplets already on the 
 control center list. It was generally agreed that it would be nice to 
 merge some of them, but (as far as I know) all except one of the 
 suggestions had problems. And after that, the biggest issue is finding 
 some developers with enough time to actually do the work.

Well, some of them already have enough time to write a shell to handle
them :)

More seriously, merging some capplets is badly needed in all cases. Some
of them simply need to be removed from the menu: gstreamer-properties,
cddb-slave2-properties, background-properties, gdmphotosetup,
nautilus-file-management-properties.

For others, it is hard to justify, from a user POV, to have separate
capplets for keyboard, mouse, keyboard accessibility and keyboard
shortcuts. Same for sound-properties and gstreamer-properties. Or for
the screensaver and gnome-power-manager capplets. Or for all
interface-related capplets: metacity, fonts, menustoolbars.

I'm not saying this is easy, especially for those coming from different
modules, but this would reduce the current number from 24 to 12. Which
is quite an acceptable number.

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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
Josselin Mouette wrote:
 I'm not saying this is easy, especially for those coming from different
 modules, but this would reduce the current number from 24 to 12. Which
 is quite an acceptable number.
 

Hear hear!

also remember that frequently settings can be moved to 
context-appropriate locations such as the file manager or other 
situation where the setting arises, instead of dumping all settings in a
big central set of prefs dialogs.

Havoc
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Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Andrew Sobala

 Reducing the number of capplets is still a laudable goal, but hasn't
 solved this problem in the past.

Actually, it has. But recently, no one has taken the challenge to do a big
review and refactor (PreferencesRevisited on the wiki). So while it has been
raised, it has not been done, but that doesn't invalidate it as something we
should do. :-)

- Jeff

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 with your first wife. You guys were good together'. It's not that
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