2009/2/23 Alexander Sack <[email protected]>: >> I find access to the various settings applications to be rather tedious >> and indirect through the gnome-control-center, so I prefer the way that >> Ubuntu does it (simply with the menus).
Me too, although I understand also that some assume gnome-control-center-like behavior (because of Windows etc.) so it might be more familiar. Somehow I don't feel it's easy to navigate anyway, it's not too polished / thought out. > In control center, the grouping by topics is nice for users to at > least narrow down the list they look harder at. (e.g. Internet & Net, > etc.). This is done in the menus by Fedora and I prefer it (multiple sub-menus with descriptive titles, the same as in gnome-control-center) to the current too-long list of Preferences in Ubuntu. > (Seems like the control center entries could deserve some polishing > and maybe removing things that are not really used frequently could > help to improve it). I think mostly what would be needed is the combining of some utils which has been discussed for a long time (somehow unable to find the most recent page about in the wiki now). It's just that no-one has started doing it or discussing it (enough) in GNOME. Like: Keyboard & Shortcuts (& SCIM), Screen Saver & Power Management (or Screen Saver & Appearance), Removable Drives and Media & Palm Devices (->Removable Devices and Media?). Network Configuration & Network Proxy. Some of that is considerable work that would involve rethinking the grouping, and eg. SCIM is not even part of GNOME. -Timo -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
