On 3/30/07, rohit sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have keenly been tracking progress of feisty fawn (since i plan to migrate > to ubuntu linux). > > Whilst viewing the screenshots of feisty fawn's alpha releases i noticed a > noteworthy change: the introduction of the gnome control center in the > system menu. This replaced the preferences and administration tabs. not only > was the control center a more visually appealing option, it was also easier > to use as it categorized all the tasks (against the two over sized menus). > > Very unfortunately though, in the latest beta release the control center has > been replaced by the same old tabs (preferences and administration). > do hope you give a thought to the control center. > > sincerely, > ruffrohit.
This is certainly not the correct list to discuss this, but I will tell you why the control centre was removed: it was too slow. The menu opens on a cold boot in about 2 secs and less than 1 sec warm (after the panel has cached the information). The control centre took about 3 to 6 secs on the fastest of my machines. You then had to find it. So not only was it slower, it didn't make anything easier to find (as 2-d searching is slower than 1-d) for new people and make all that muscle memory for exisiting users useless. In other words, it was a bad change. What actually does need to happen is a merging of various configuration options by upstream, in this case GNOME, to make the list shorter, not a bandaid like the control centre. Corey -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
