Re: REMINDER: GEP-2 discussion end date

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:59, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Well, since my original proposal for an integrated theme layout, turned
> into a heated ui/a11y discussion, and billh made it a GEP for an actual
> capplet with code and all, I might as well say something about what I
> think it should be...
> 
> The capplet would replace the current Theme capplet, as well as Fonts,
> Background, Screensaver, and Toolbars/Menus. It would also replace the
> theme selection inside of Nautilus, and could replace such preferences
> in several other applications, preferably by integrating their theme
> configuration with the rest of gnome/gtk, as in the structure I sent
> a proposal to this list for. It would also be nice to put some sort of
> X configuration in this same capplet, but that will require more effort
> than should be put forth, right now. Oh, I suppose that the Keybindings
> capplet could also be merged into this. Part of the functionality of
> the Sound capplet would also be merged in here as well, but the Sound
> capplet itself will hopefully disappear in favor of the multimedia
> capplet that I am also writing for GStreamer.

Hmm.  I think would make more sense to have separate capplets.  I.e.,
separating background into its own capplet is good.  Not so much for
technical reasons, but more just for making it organized more sanely.  A
user would look for a "Background" setting, not a "Mass of All Themable
Options" setting.

Things like sound should also be separated - but probably grouped, as
well.  Having three different capplets for doing three different types
of sound configuration would be less than optimal, UI wise.  The same
goes for keyboard control, fonts, etc.  One fonts capplet to control all
desktop fonts.  One sound capplet to control sound options.  Of course,
breaking some of it into the "Advanced" section (such as choice of esd,
oss, arts, alsa backend for sound) is probably a very good idea, again
for the sanity of the user.

I would think tho that a "Theme" capplet can *also* control these
values, if only those related directly to themes (such as sound sets,
versus individual sound settings configuration).

> 
> -- dobey
> 
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:49, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Calum Benson <calum benson sun com> writes:
> > > Reminder: the discussion period on GEP-2 (New "Metatheme" Capplet) is
> > > due to end tomorrow, September 26th.
> > > 
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/gep/gep-2.html
> > > 
> > > I'm not completely sure on what's meant to happen after that, but I'll
> > > re-read GEP-0 at some point tomorrow and figure it out :)
> > > 
> > 
> > Remember that GEP 0 isn't done yet. ;-) 
> > 
> > Basically we need to get together and discuss what to do with this
> > gep. To me the interesting question remains what the high-level entire
> > Preferences menu and capplet set looks like before and after this
> > proposal.
> > 
> > Havoc
> -- 
> Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>
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