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

[Luis Matos]

Qua, 2007-01-03 às 21:29 +0100, Josselin Mouette escreveu:
> 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.

My idea is to create a template for it. For example, position for the
swirl, the background, the application name's position. I'll try to give
an example of this.

> 
> > > 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.
> 
The many icons in a shell (you mean G-c-c right?) is better than the
menu. every time you search the menu, click on a preference, and then,
you want the one that was previous to the one you selected and you have
to go fetch again.


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

Are working with upstream in this? I read something about it somewhere.
I read also about the merge of administration and preferences ... read a
lot.

We could go ahead with this and still revert to previous if needed.
This depends also about the package maintainers. 

> 
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Best Regards,
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Luis Matos