I read what you explained in the bug report, and here are a few remarks. Clarifying the confusion around Preferences & Administration is IMHO a good idea, since every base user seems to have problems with it.
Naming them "User Preferences" and "System Administration" can be nice since it's not too hard to change. Though, notice that the parent menu is already named "System", so let's not end up with jokes like Start -> Stop in Windows. If in "System" you have "System Administration" and "User Preferences", this means that "User Preferences" is not a system setting, and thus should not be there in the menu. This can look like a detail, but IMHO it's important that we think of consistency. These strings are also very long, and may not look nice. Maybe you could simply rename them to "User Preferences" and "Administration", the latter makes it quite clear that we're dealing with "hard" configuration. Here I don't have a real solution, just some advice. ;-) Please also take care of not doing this change alone - you're aware of that since you asked the list. This should be discussed with GNOME, since they have the same issue. Moreover, PolicyKit is going to add many changes in this domain, and maybe the distinction system-wide/user-only will disappear soon. This will be a real problem while we are migrating, and I'm glad you're caring about this now. Maybe the best solution would be a single Control Center, which already exists. So please see this in a long-term outlook, changes are likely to happen in the newt months. About renaming the configuration items to emphasize ("Set" and "Modify")/("Manage", "System", "Global"), please don't do this! I just managed to remove every piece of unneeded text there, and these expressions are really useless: if the menu description is clear enough, you know what you want to do, and you're just looking for the domain (printing, screen...) you want to configure. Everything else is bloating the menu - and will ask much work that cannot be unified in one package. And a detail: why do you make a so large list of packages to be affected? gnome-menu should be (almost) the only one. Just some (long) thoughts - good luck, it's not an easy issue -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss