I wasn't intending to jump into this because it has become vastly tangential and there's a pretty unhappy signal to noise ratio already. So, I realize I might be totally misunderstanding this. If I sound accusatory or anything, it's purely my writing getting carried away :) Here goes…
In any Gnome 2 desktop that has been loved, the System menu has many applications which do not exist upstream. An integrated control centre gives users a nice way to find those applications on the basis that they are accessed for similar reasons: configuring services and things that relate to the entire system (where each panel might affect more than one device, hence keywords). Okay, that sounds good. Gnome 3's Control Centre _is_ really good. However, from the sounds of it, this isn't actually fixing our problem. This isn't replacing the system menu, or providing any kind of top level order. It configures Gnome, and only Gnome. From here arises a pretty serious question: what does Gnome have to do with my screen resolution, and what am I to do if I am using NVidia's proprietary driver which comes with nvidia-settings? I no longer have the System menu, and apparently this won't be in Control Centre either. Either Gnome needs to keep up with everything nvidia-settings does, nvidia-settings needs to be an official Gnome module, or our users need to search for nvidia-settings as if it is any other application (eg: in the Applications section of the Activities overlay). On this same vein, it sounds like users will need to know what Gnome is and that Control Centre configures Gnome if they expect to find the particular configuration panel they are looking for. Am I on the right track here? -- Dylan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list