Re: Control center shell, panel and breaking compat

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 1/23/07, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:03 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > So, I put 2.17.90 in rawhide over the last few days
> > and watched our Fedora menu layout break on the way.
> >
> > It appears that the switch to using the cc shell by default in
> > upstream gnome broke the panel menu code for anybody who prefers
> > to stay with the previous submenu layout for the preferences menu.
> >
> > I don't think that is acceptable from a compatibility point of view.
> >
> what do you mean exactly? that we should keep both the old submenu and
> the new layout?

The layout is configuration that is not controlled by the panel, but by .menu
files that can and will be tweaked by users/distros. There is nothing
wrong with changing the default configuration shipped with control center.
But I did expect my FC6 menu configuration to keep working with the new panel.

I thought not breaking existing configurations was an explicit part of
staying within
the 2.x line.