[Fwd: Debian objectives for lenny ... desktop]

Josselin Mouette josselin.mouette at ens-lyon.org
Wed Jan 3 21:29:55 CET 2007


Le mercredi 03 janvier 2007 à 19:52 +0000, Luis Matos a écrit :
> >  - Have an unified artwork for all possible applications (splash screens
> > mostly), icons and so on.

Unifying icons is an incredibly tedious task, as there are thousands of
them. Novell employs at least two full-time artwork developers, and a
large part of their work is around icons.

> > In gnome specially, which seems the most widely used for enterprise features, i would like to seek on other distribution's features that could have in debian,
> > such prefer gnome-control-center instead of administration/preferences [1][2]. It's easier for users to find that nice place where everything is and they can really see what want to change.

The problem is more that the preferences menu is completely cluttered
with either too small capplets or capplets that have nothing to do here.
Novell is trying to improving it by moving these icons to a shell, but
IMHO this is a dead end, as too many icons in a menu also means too many
icons in a shell.

I want to work on reducing the number of capplets. Which looks quite
feasible by removing some and merging others.

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