Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:02 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:44 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 09:37 +0200, Ted Gould wrote:
> > >> Could someone please articulate the GNOME position for downstream
> > >> distributors of GNOME technologies?  It seems to me the previous
> > >> position was to use the extension points instead of doing vendor
> > >> patches.  Yet, without extension points it seems that vendor patches are
> > >> the only solution there.
> > > 
> > > For the gnome-control-center, if it's worth having, it should be worth
> > > having upstream, and in gnome-control-center directly.
> > 
> > In the context of Ted's request, one obvious case to bear in mind would
> > be integrating file sharing via Ubuntu One. That is a system service on
> > Ubuntu, and should obviously have its preferences in the "System
> > preferences->Sharing" panel.
> 
> I don't know about the implementation, but the intent behind the design
> of that panel was to allow different sharing services to be added to it
> (just like Ubuntu One).
> 
> See: http://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/PrivacyAndSharing

Exactly. It's also needed for our "core" code, as we'll want to make
most of that stuff dependent on the backend being available. Eg. if
rygel isn't installed, we wouldn't show the configuration for it (or
show it in such a way that it was obvious how it could be enabled).