Re: Details, System inside Settings

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Ma Xiaojun <damage3025 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still using the same 3.7.92 testing image.
>
> What to expect from Details, System inside Settings? Wat does a gear
> icon mean? No idea, too vague.
>
> In the Overview tab, it's a mix of brief hardware information, GNOME
> version and whether system is up-to-date?
> I guess hardware information stuff should belongs to hardware panel
> inside Settings and it should be more powerful so that we can forget
> about lspci/lsusb command.
>
> The rest two tabs make more sense being called "Preferred
> Applications" or so together.
>
> The Default Applications tab is too weak in functionality:
> In a Web based world, a user probably care about Web only. You know,
> everything except Music can be well served by Google's service.
> But we are still using a "real computer", we probably care default
> text editor for various file type, we probably care OOo or LibO to
> handle OpenDocument files, ...
> And also, something inside System panel cannot be applied system-wide?
>
> The Removable Media tab has same issue that it cannot apply settings
> system-wide (Remember we are inside System panel.)


We haven't redone that panel for 3.8; it may get some love for 3.10.
You should probably add your observations to
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676575