Hi, On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 14:37 +0100, Matthew East wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > I'm working on a design to combine the "Preferences" and >> > "Administration" menus into something more wieldy. >> >> Isn't gnome-control-center the answer to this? Having tried OpenSUSE >> and noting a big improvement on Ubuntu in the way preference tools are >> presented, I raised the issue of its activation by default in Ubuntu a >> while back on the -desktop list, and there was a brief discussion >> about the fact that it seems to be rather slow to appear on some >> systems, but no serious discussion or justification offered for >> including the long unwieldy menus. > > It's still overcrowded and doesn't address the fact that many of the > items should really combine for clarity. Keyboard, keyboard shortcuts, > OnBoard...those seem like they could all go together. Printing and > Default Printer? Put them together. Preferred Applications and > Removable Drives and Media should go together as well. Removable Drives > and Media is really "preferred applications for handling removable > drives and media," so it doesn't really need to be separate.
That is of course true, but it's a separate problem, not a problem with gnome-control-center. It exists both in the Ubuntu menu and in gnome-control-center. I'm fairly sure it's a known problem upstream and there is at least some gradual work to combine utilities (such as the Appearance utility). -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- 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