XFCE - look-and-feel configuration.

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:08:25 -0800
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

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> SJM Arts wrote:
> > I know development for 4.4 is now (slowly) entering a new stage,
> > one of bug-fixing and stabilizing.
> > 
> > But, i would like to brainstorm with you about some possible
> > post-4.4 configuration stuff.
> > 
> > At the moment, the configuration of the xfce-look-and-feel is done
> > in multiple mcs-plugins, one for gtk, one (or two, if you count the
> > wm-tweaks plugin in. ) for xfwm4, one for xfdesktop and one for the
> > splash-screen.
> > 
> > Can it be integrated in one look-and-feel configuration utility?
> > 
> > I understand that the current setting is clear. But 4 different
> > locations to change the appearance of xfce i find a bit weird.
> 
> I agree with you on principle: it's definitely much more usable to
> have all the look and feel stuff in one dialog box.  It's another
> case of thinking like a programmer: gtk, xfwm4, xfdesktop, etc., are
> all their own entities, and so have their own separate stuff.
> Whereas from the user perspective, you might want to look at it from
> a task-oriented model: "I want to change how my environment looks;
> how do I do that?"
> 
> However, xfce is intended to be modular, and can work with components
> swapped out.  So this wouldn't really work, I don't think.

What, if the MCS manager would have an API for the plugins to register
to a certain "category" (like "user-interface", "devices", "printing"
etc.)? I'm not sure how MCS works, but I could imagine something
like .desktop files (as they are used in the panel) with a
X-XFCE-MCS-CATEGORY key or something like that.

If plugins would define this, the MCS manager could group them more
easily.

Just an idea,
Jannis
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