Hello, I have been using GNOME since GNOME 2.10 and I love it so. This is the best desktop environment I have used in my several years being in Linux! GNOME is fast, easy and friendly, and I have an idea to make it even more so. A centralized control center: I have noticed that there is a gnome control center (available by typing gnome-control-center in a terminal), however, that control center seems to be only a page of icons that call other apps. Clicking on "themes" in the gnome-control-center simply calls gnome-theme-manager. I feel there should be two centralized controls centers; one for the user and another for system apps. The user control center: The user control center would consist of a tabbed window with each tab containing the ui of other tweaks inside each tab. For instance, clicking on the "themes" tab in the user control center would show a clone of gnome-theme-manager inside the tab instead of doing an "exec gnome-theme-manager" or whatever the current gnome-control-center uses to call the gnome-theme-manager. The user control center ui would have tabs for all the ui's contained in System -> Preferences. The system control center: The system control center would be the exact same as the user control center except that the system control center would have a tab for each of the tasks contained in System -> Administration. Reason: The reason for these two control centers is so that the user only has to remember a single command (e.g. gnome-user-controls or gnome-system-controls) or menu item (e.g. System -> User Controls or System -> System Controls). I run the ##gnome channel on irc.freenode.net and it seems that this would help us better support the GNOME desktop due to being able to tell users to "open the System Control Center and go to the GDM tab". I am currently learning python, pygtk and how to design ui's with glade2, and I am realising how easy it would be to design the ui's for these two control centers. I don't currently have the expertise to write a complete control center, otherwise I would write the whole thing myself and contact the GNOME devs to see if they would be interested in including this idea into a future version. However, I am very good with writing documentation and would be willing to work with a design group to assist in implementing the docs for these control centers. Is it possible that a group of coders/devs can implement this? It seems this would greatly enhance the usability of this awesome desktop environment. Should I be posting this idea elsewhere as well? Thanks for listening Ian MacGregor (aka ardchoille) -- MacGregor Despite Them! _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
