Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 21:07 +0200, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> On 01.10.2007 19:44, Denis Washington wrote:

> > Depends on whether we may want to add preferences for other kinds of input  
> > devices there, like touchpads, drawing tablet or even joysitcks/gamepads.
> 
> Personally, I'd prefer having separate capplets for keyboard and "other
> input devices" or somesuch. There are lots of keyboard options (I'd
> actually put keyboard layouts there as well), and as Bastien pointed
> out, keyboards seem to be sufficiently different from other input
> devices that this makes sense.

I'd be more inclined just to have a separate capplet for each device
(except, perhaps, Mouse and Touchpad)-- and ideally dynamically hide the
capplets in the control centre/main menu for devices that aren't
attached, although I'm not sure that's easily possible right now.

The tablet and joystick control panels I've used, on Mac and Windows at
least, are usually multi-tab affairs in their own right, so not really
suitable for squeezing into an existing capplet IMHO.  Hard to judge
until we see some specific examples of tablet and gaming device capplets
though, I guess...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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