GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 98911
Strategy to remove gnome-panel-preferences completely
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:45 UTC
UI review: - 'animation' doesn't say enough for what's being animated -- Drawer and Panel animation ? - Possibly remove 'Close drawer when launcher is clicked' into GConf - Possibly remove 'Animation' to a desktop wide preference, then remove Panel Preferences dialog, so we only have one Panel Properties dialog - especially if this is an 'Advanced' preference? :/
> - 'animation' doesn't say enough for what's being animated > -- Drawer and Panel animation ? Done > - Possibly remove 'Close drawer when launcher is clicked' into GConf > - Possibly remove 'Animation' to a desktop wide preference, then > remove Panel Preferences dialog, so we only have one Panel > Properties dialog > - especially if this is an 'Advanced' preference? :/ I agree with this - but I think I'd prefer to punt this kind of churn until 2.4.
Mark: note that there is already a global animation gconf key. See bug #98426.
*** Bug 102584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is just about fixed or irrelevant when using the new toplevel panel.
No its not. The dialog is till there :-)
Eek, my bad. Mark, what's the status of this bug vs. bug 107614? Duplicates, or does one merely depend on the other?
No, they don't have any relation to one another. Well, not really ... the only relation is that the animation speed setting is now per-toplevel so it doesn't make sense in the preferences dialog anymore. But, the dialog just needs to go. And btw, bug #107614 isn't a BADBUG either - I doubt anyone will ever notice if it doesn't get fixed :-)
Ok. I'm just trying to catch possible regressions; seems I'm being overzealous :-)
Mark: any progress on this yet? Andrew and Mark: I agree that this preference needs to go. ui: I can't see a nice way to handle these preferences outside of this dialog, but this dialog has to go. These prefences would be categorized as a one-time-setup, meaning most people don't go in an tweak this setting often. So I believe it's ok if we place this in GConf, my understanding of the preference is really for creating less flicker in remote sessions therefore I would keep the defaults you have in place as they seem reasonable. Anyone is then welcome to open a new bug about choosing bad defaults for this preference if the settings aren't optimal.
Why don't we simply remove the capplet now? And I think the settings it set are not used any more (at least for the animation and the animation speed...)
Remove it! :) Mark? regs, Chris
Ping?
Manny: feel free to go ahead - I don't think there's anything more to do here than remove the .c and .glade files, update Makefile.am and configure.in
oh, the .desktop file too