Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [gnome-love] GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> > That being said, we want to have a new "shell" that is task-oriented,
> > very much like the one found in Whistler.  
>
> Can you explain this in a bit more detail?

When you start the control center, you see the most common tasks that
people perform with the control center on the top (3 lines, plain
HTML), then on the bottom, you see an icon listing of the tools
available or the sub-tasks available.

This is from the top of my head, as I dont have whistler on my
desktop:

        Add a User
        Configure Internet
        Add a Printer

        ICON            ICON            ICON
        CAPPLET1        CAPPLET2        SYSTEM_SETTINGS

        ICON            ICON            ICON
        CAPPLET3        CAPPLET4        DEVICE_DRIVERS

You can select one of the tree tasks above, and that will launch the
proper tool with a set of defaults.  Or you can just pick the tool
from list.  NOw, if you go into a "subdirectory", say `Internet
stuff', then the list changes to be contextual to the most common
things people do with the internet settings:

        Setup dialup
        Share this connection
        Set up local networking

        ICON            ICON                    ICON
        DNS_CAPPLET     LDAP_CONFIGURATION      NETWORK_SETTINGS

        ICON            ICON
        DHCP_MANAGER    PPP_CONFIG


You get the idea?