Default Applications does not belong in System Info(Oneiric)/Details(Precise)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center |
New
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Medium
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
System Settings (gnome-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 3 10:28:06 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110817)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-27 (6 days ago)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: ugjqc-11.09 |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Incomplete |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
tags: | added: css-sponsored-p |
summary: |
- Default Applications does not belong in System Info + Default Applications does not belong in System + Info(Oneiric)/Details(Precise) |
tags: | added: precise quantal raring |
I created duplicate of this bug for Ubuntu 12.04 beta2: /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 982084
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The only difference is that now "System Info" is called "Details".
It really doesn't matter what you name it, "Default Applications" remains hard to find. Who would think to go to "System Info" OR "Details"? Everything is a detail, so why have an icon called details?
Remember how GNOME 2 had the "System" menu? It then had two sub menus: (1) Preferences and (2) Administration. You had everything you needed in 3 steps. Plus, all the user-level options were in one spot, and the system-admin-wide stuff was in another.
Everything doesn't need to be reinvented from scratch when you make something new; it seems like a lot of thought was put into GNOME 2 menu organization, and certain conceptual aspects of it should prevail into GNOME 3 and Unity. One unabridged- hierarchical- menu-system ought to be there long side the "GNOME DO" style quick launch features.
Getting back on topic. Default applications can be a User Preference (to be enforced when a particular user logs in), or a System Wide setting (that administrators set to be the default when new users are added to the system).