Re: Application/System Tools vs System/Administration

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Hi,

I think the Windows capplet should be removed from the main Gnome 
control-center packages, and spawned off into a GnomeUITweak package 
that is part of the Fifth Toe or similar.

Call me a nut, but I think the CDDB, Menus & Toolbars, and Multimedia 
System Selector capplets should as well.  I've been using GNOME since 
before 1.0 and I never use these things, and can't even perceive of a 
need to.  Why are they cluttering up my life?

People who know or care what these capplets do are such a small, 
hyper-advanced set of users that I think asking them to install a 
separate package is not a large request.

-Alex

Danilo Šegan wrote:
> Yesterday at 21:36, Larry W. Virden wrote:
>
>
> > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 07:43 -0700, Rob Adams wrote:
> >
> > > and focus-follows-mouse is just
> > > silly really, despite the fact that I use it :-) ).
> >
> > Sorry - but focus follows mouse is so far from silly that 
> > the word loses its meaning in context.
>
>
> Let me remind everyone that this is a discussion about showing this as
> a preferences capplet. 
>
> To illustrate my point, I use the following:
>  - focus follows mouse
>  - double clicking titlebar shades the window
>  - I don't have a taskbar anywhere on my desktop (I have a window list
>    menu button though, but I rarely use it: I have a big [3x4] number of
>    workspaces)
>  - I don't have minimise on my titlebar (I just have close button on
>    the left side, and general menu on the right—I should probably
>    remove the menu one as well, since I rarely use it, and it's
>    available with a right-click on the titlebar as well)
>
> To get to all of these, I need to use gconf-editor anyway.  I didn't
> even know you could set some of these through a "Windows" capplet.
> I'm not yet ready to become your average home user (to use all the
> defaults), so I appreciate having these options, but I really don't
> care about the "Windows" crapplet.
>
> Cheers,
> Danilo
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