Re: control-center - some input for Common Plan

2005-10-19 Thread John Rice
Calum Benson wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 23:25 +0200, Luca Cavalli wrote: I'm imitating gnome-volume-properties and vino-preferences, but a common set of gui directives to achieve a common look and feel among capplets would be really useful. Yep, something else I'd

Re: control-center - some input for Common Plan

2005-10-18 Thread Calum Benson
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 23:25 +0200, Luca Cavalli wrote: I'm imitating gnome-volume-properties and vino-preferences, but a common set of gui directives to achieve a common look and feel among capplets would be really useful. Yep, something else I'd like to take a look at when I (hopefully) get

Re: control-center - some input for Common Plan

2005-10-17 Thread John Rice
Cool, I've been thinking about this after the summit and scratching heads with Darren Kenny and Calum Benson about the Control Center [my own head I hasten to add, not Darren's or Calum's ;) ]. Few thoughts to put into the pot when you are considering your common plan on this: 1.

Re: control-center - some input for Common Plan

2005-10-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=John Rice 3. Front End: my understanding of the current control center applets are that they have a front end and back end architecture communicating via XML. Would be great if we could support Python based front ends as well. That's true for the gnome-system-tools, but not for

Re: control-center - some input for Common Plan

2005-10-17 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 12:29 +0100, John Rice wrote: Cool, I've been thinking about this after the summit and scratching heads with Darren Kenny and Calum Benson about the Control Center [my own head I hasten to add, not Darren's or Calum's ;) ]. Few thoughts to put into the pot when you

Re: control-center - some input for Common Plan

2005-10-17 Thread John Rice
Ahh - my mistake. Put it down to too much fun at the summit. I was thinking of gnome-system-tools and had naively assumed the control center was working in the same way :( JR Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="John Rice" 3. Front End: my understanding of the current control center

Re: control-center - some input for Common Plan

2005-10-17 Thread Luca Cavalli
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 07:59 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: [...] 2. Control Center Applet UI: Would be great once we have broad agreement on Categories to come up with a consistent UI to present this info to the user. So going to set one thing doesn't look dramatically different to any