Bug#688962: gnome-control-center: has almost no settings

[Michal Suchanek]

Excerpts from Josselin Mouette's message of Fri Sep 28 00:11:58 +0200 2012:
> Le jeudi 27 septembre 2012 à 16:23 +0200, Michal Suchanek a écrit : 
> > - set the icon and gtk theme or any theme at all
> 
> There are no other themes than Adwaita available for GTK+ 3. So maybe
> you can ask again when they exist.

The applet should be there regardless. It's possible to install themes
from theme sites at the very least.

> 
> > - change the window manager, especially the 'fallback' vs useless gnome-shell
> >  - 'desktop effects' or similar setting which would allow switching between GL and Render
> 
> Upstream allows this, and it’s a mess. Instead, you can select “GNOME
> Classic” from the login prompt.

Since the gnome3 junk silently replaces somewhat usable previous setup
it is good idea to allow the user to revert the breakage from their
session the moment they find they are in a useless DE.

> 
> > 'Details' is uselessly named. Maybe 'About Hardware' ?
> 
> Please bring such string/UI changes upstream first.
> 
> > control center is just a bit smaller than the contained icons and not resizable.
> 
> Indeed. That one is probably easy to fix, but OTOH it’s not a very
> important issue so it’s a bit late for wheezy.

Awesome

> 
> > ok, it has so many bugs I am not going to file them separately, sorry.
> 
> Then we are not going to fix them separately, sorry.
> 

I uninstalled gnome. Problem solved.

Thanks

Michal