GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 678179
Offer GNOME session properties
Last modified: 2014-06-30 10:16:55 UTC
Please offer GNOME session properties (gnome-session-properties) under the System caption. In older versions of GNOME this was easily accessible, now not anymore. Offering this will allow users to easily configure GNOME startup application preferences from a place where all configuration can be controlled. See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1002194
[Please don't use components marked as obsolete. Thanks.]
Same on Fedora 17. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702478
Here's one design: https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Proposals/LoginItems
*** Bug 689576 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think vino-preferences dialog and tracker-preferences dialog should also be under System Settings thus leaving only third-party GUI settings software under the "Other" Application Menu.
See https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Sharing for vino and https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Search for tracker Both coming to GNOME 3.8
I know that Fedora also had a bug against this (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702478). I have read the ratiocination for this (https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/commit/?id=84a733203e076142a960005eaf0ac602521470fb). Is some or all of this functionality, still, intended to be incorporated to gnome-control-center?
I guess this is obsolete... tweak-tool has incorporated gnome-session-properties' functionality.
(In reply to comment #8) > I guess this is obsolete... tweak-tool has incorporated > gnome-session-properties' functionality. Indeed, thanks for the notice.
What is the command to start the tweak-tool? In which package is it shipped?
(In reply to comment #10) > What is the command to start the tweak-tool? In which package is it shipped? The package is usually called gnome-tweak-tool on most distributions. Just type 'tweak' on the search bar and you'll get it. Now there's a bar called 'Startup Applications' where you can setup programs to run at the start of gnome-session ;)
the functionality in the tweak tool is nowhere near as convenient as gnome-session-properties specifically, the functionality to deactivate and reactivate programs and services is missing. Also, tweak tool does not show as many services as gnome-session-properties (however this may be intentional). Until tweak tool can provide the same functionality, the demand for gnome-session-properties will remain (as is obvious by the many bug reports across many distributions).
(In reply to comment #12) > the functionality in the tweak tool is nowhere near as convenient as > gnome-session-properties > specifically, the functionality to deactivate and reactivate programs and > services is missing. Then file bugs against gnome-tweak-tool.