Hi Luca,
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Luca Ferretti <lferr...@gnome.org> wrote:
>
>
> > We started moving things into gnome-control-center so we could stop the
> > various panels looking like they were a hodge-podge of thrown together
> > bits. Opening the door to 3rd-party panels would 1) get us the bug
> > reports 2) destroy the work we carefully crafted.
>
> And closing the doors IMHO means to follow, sorry to be impolite and a
> little offensive, a really stupid and dumb path.
>
> You are proving a resource, but you don't want other developers and
> vendors will be able to take advantage of it. It resembles to me a
> childish "this is MY toy, I choose who can play". A diktat: in or out.
>
>
I think I understand the system settings.. it is in fact system settings,
settings that change how your system behaves. It isn't exactly a place for
apps to put themselves.
That said, we don't really have a proper forum to educate developers on how
to write applications the "GNOME 3" way. I realize we direct people to
#gnome-design, but that's not really enough.
To look at the big picture a bit, if we were to construct a life cycle of a
GNOME application on how a developer goes about writing something in GNOME
3, we aren't going to get very far. For instance, developer.gnome.org is
not anywhere on the gnome 3 site so an app developer at the moment really
has to work at getting the information they need to get going. That's
something some of us will need to work on...
A simple construction of:
in GNOME 3 - where do I store configurations?
In GNOME 3, you must store configurations in gsettings and stored used
in
edit->preferences menu items. If you're app is a part of core GNOME
3,
you may put your settings in system preferences
Would help I think in giving application developers an idea where to do put
their settings and avoid the abuse of system settings. You can illustrate
using "good" applications that do it properly like say Rhythmbox and Totem.
In the end, nobody can stop people from abusing the system settings if they
wanted to. The source is out there and distros can just as easy revert
whatever we do.
sri
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