Comment 34 for bug 727823
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| Matthew East (mdke) wrote Re: [Bug 727823] Re: Enable Gnome-Control-Center in Unity, and add "System Settings" link to the session indicator menu | #34 |
On 14 March 2011 11:49, Mark Shuttleworth <email address hidden> wrote:
> On 14/03/11 10:26, Matthew East wrote:
>> On 14 March 2011 10:01, Mark Shuttleworth <email address hidden> wrote:
>>> Ah. The problem with that is that the contents are unpredictable.
>> I don't understand what that means. If there is an issue with that
>> menu, then it would apply to any item put in it, and there has been no
>> issue adding "Applications" and "Files & Folders" to it, so why not
>> "Settings" as another entry?
>
> Users can remove items from the launcher, whereas they can't remove them
> from the indicator menus. The launcher is "user space" and we seed it
> with some useful stuff. The indicators are (mostly) "system space".
I don't think that is a clear distinction at all. Music, mail, chat,
social networking etc are all present in the indicators and these seem
to me to be user space. But putting that aside, it seems to me that
the launcher is intended to be the place where users *start* things
and I still don't see any meaningful reason not to include settings
alongside applications there.
>>> The advantage of putting it in the last indicator menu is that it can be
>>> consistent across all the desktop interfaces.
>> Again, that argument doesn't apply to any other item in the left hand
>> menu?
>
> All of the things that are going in the launcher are optional. The
> system still works without any of 'em.
That's also true of the settings (which are currently present in the
applications launcher already).
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Matthew East
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