Fwd: Mission Control

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 8/22/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 August 2006 14:39, David Nielsen wrote:
> > tir, 22 08 2006 kl. 14:35 -0400, skrev Jesse Keating:
> > > On Tuesday 22 August 2006 14:25, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > > However, would you disagree that Windows Control Panel is functional?
> > >
> > > Functional to an extent. However I'm not into "lets do it this way
> > > because Windows (and now SuSE) do it this way too".
> >
> > Rejecting concepts because they happen to resemble those find in another
> > OS is the best of reasons.
>
> I don't reject the concept in whole.  The Control Center part of it looks like
> a slightly better way of representing gnome's control-center, plus a few
> other things.  How does this scale for KDE, or any other window manager?

Which is why I think this _should_ be a standalone , Gtk app. WIth all
respect to the apperently large number of Gnome guys.

>
> What I don't like is the slab menu that is pretty much modeled to be the
> default XP start menu thing.

Hadn't noticed that, will have to look more closely again.

> For THAT I haven't seen much useful reasoning
> as to why it should be used rather than the menu system that we use, of
> upstream Gnome.  This is what feels like copying for copying sake.
>
>

Once your reason isn't "because it is in Windows" then I understand.

No promises, but I will attempt something in Glade some time this week
and post screenshots.

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