backport gnome-control-center on gnome3 to mate

[yetist]

Gnome3's gnome-control-center has more module, such as wacom, user-account, bluetools, color, printer, etc. And it has modern UI better than the current mate-control-center, has any plan to backport gnome-control-center for mate-desktop?

[alexarnaud]

Le 25/04/2018 à 16:07, Wu Xiaotian a écrit :

Gnome3's gnome-control-center has more module, such as wacom, user-account, bluetools, color, printer, etc. And it has modern UI better than the current mate-control-center, has any plan to backport gnome-control-center for mate-desktop?

It looks more modern indeed but when you're trying to do simple task like changing the theme or font of your desktop it's impossible except if you're using an external tool.

Backported gnome-control-center has it is could also introduce accessibility regressions.

Before doing such task, we should be really careful.

I'm not in the Core Team so I couldn't answer what is the plan for such change.

Best regards, Alex.

[flexiondotorg]

I'd prefer to see modules in GNOME Control Centre not present in MATE ported, rather than the whole thing. I know the Wacom configuration tool has been requested from several prominent digital artists.

[lukefromdc]

Right now I've got GNOME control center coming up empty when not in a GNOME session, or else some kind of problem with it. A problem like that in M-C-C would make it much harder for a new user with two desktop environments to fix a borked MATE configuration unless they know what to look for in dconf-editor.

Also, I would not want to drop the existing mate-control-center UI, in fact I would like to see the old dconf-editor UI from 3.18 or earlier forked, then the backend from current dconf-editor with its relocatable schema support backported to it. Unfortunately, we are not a big team, and this is not a job I can do myself.

[vkareh]

Oh man, I would love to fork dconf-editor and bring back the tree view and server-side decorations!!

[lukefromdc]

I have dconf-editor 3.18 with the treeview pinned in my system, but the lack of support for relocatable schemas is a disadvantage. A fork would permit installation alongside the current version for handling the few cases where this is an issue in the current version, a fork followed by a backport of the current backend would be a great addition to MATE, even as a community supported package. I would not be surprised at all to see something like this show up, just as we already have things like the parrillada fork of brasero, seahorse-caja, and more

EDIT: If this is something you are up for doing, I suspect it would become very popular in MATE. The current GNOME version is very slow to use not at the machine level, but rather at the level of having to navigate through all those screens to move from setting one key to another.

[alexarnaud]

Le 26/04/2018 à 01:49, Victor Kareh a écrit :

Oh man, I would love to fork dconf-editor and bring back the tree view and server-side decorations!!

I'm not the only one... IMO, the new dconf editor UI is really poor designed.

Best regards, Alex.

[muktupavels]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770765

[yetist]

I mean is gnome control center 3.8, not the last release version. https://imcn.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pinguy-os-13.04-gnome-control-center.jpg

[alexarnaud]

Le 26/04/2018 à 12:25, Alberts Muktupāvels a écrit :

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770765

Thank you for sharing this, I've read the thread and I'm now convince than the maintainer doesn't have the same meaning of a good UI than I have.

I really would like to see a fork with the old interface :).

Best regards, Alex.