New control center shell
The new control center shell (from Novell’s SLAB) is now on for GNOME 2.17.
As you can see in the dialog, it looks a bit ugly, not only because of the missing icons (my setup’s fault), but because there is only one category (”Preferences”). So, next step, categorize the capplets.
BTW, I couldn’t get CVSROOT/modules from GNOME CVS, so until I fix it, you’ll have to download by hand slab/libslab and put that libslab directory into gnome-control-center source tree.
November 13th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
That’s great. Will it be in the default menu in 2.18? (the current shell isn’t used at all unless you run the command manually).
November 13th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
Good design!
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November 13th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Gotta love GNOME. Spend ages getting rid of the control center shell from 1.x because users hated it, so now we go and put it back.
November 14th, 2006 at 1:30 am
Is there a good reason why it’s called “control center” (sounds like a scifi movie) instead of “system preferences” (like apple does IIRC), other than windows uses it?
November 14th, 2006 at 1:35 am
Mockup of the final control center:
http://www.mstdev.org/imatges/vista5270/controlpanel.JPG
November 14th, 2006 at 1:42 am
How will this change the system menu? As you categorize the applets, will they be placed into submenus in the Preferences and Administration menus as well? That would be a bad idea IMO (too many sub-menus), so either they need to stay uncategorized in the System menu, or maybe they could stay in one menu, and be seperated by category headers.