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Settings Manager Updates #7
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CategoriesFor the reorganization of categories, it would be good to adopt ideas from the organization of Gnome Settings, Mate Control Center and Cinnamon System Settings.
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Thanks for the suggestion @marcosins . As we've hidden terminal-settings from the menu, hiding it in settings manager seems like a good idea as well.
Changing it to 'Terminal Preferences' has already been suggested upstream. |
In addition to hiding Terminal Settings, hiding Bluetooth Adapters or Bluetooth Manager, seems like a good idea, so we only have a single entry for Bluetooth. I would suggest hiding Bluetooth Adapters, as you can access it from within Bluetooth Manager through Adapter > Preferences. |
Other insights can be taken from Mac OS X's System Preferences, though it resembles Elementary OS Some differences in from this image with new updates (image 1, image 2, image 3)
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Elementary OS has the category as 'Network & Wireless' and Mac has it as 'Internet & Wireless' and this new category could be called 'Connectivity' and contain
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My extra 2 cents in all of this:
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Look and Feel is for the appearance of the User Interface and Personal is for personal settings of the user.
Selecting which driver to use for the hardware is still hardware related
If its possible for us to rename any of them, we'll definitely have consistency.
A better name would be great, but it does have multiple tabs for software repositories (Ubuntu Software, Other Software, Authentication) and multiple tabs for software updates (Updates, Developer Options, Livepatch). I presume the original name might have been Software Repositories & Updates and then shrunk it down to just Software & Updates. If it is in a category called software then we could easily call it Repositories & Updates.
All the items we rename would likely have different window title labels, but the importance of the labels would be that they should be clear irrespective of where it takes you.
Definitely would be better.
Likely Partition Manager is a more common wording
Not completely sure what this does, but yes a renaming would be good. |
Updated the comment with your changes.
Thanks for clarifying
Ok
All other elements in settings use and instead of &
The different launchers for different tabs of the same dialog is a mess, but I understand that this is more an Ubuntu inherited thing than xfce. Repositories & Updates sounds good to me
Ok, get it
Nice!
Sounds good to me too
"It mounts what it is told to". It can connects to (s)ftp, samba, webdav and almost any kind of remote or local filesystem.
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Thanks
Yes Ubuntu changed all the ands to **&**s at one point, while Xfce still kept ands.
Mint Cinnamon has it as Software Sources.
Maybe Remote Connections.
Synaptic shows up as Synaptic Package Manager. Additional Changes
Placement of Non-Pre-installed EntriesHere are the list of entries that I have in my settings manager and where I would place them in the reordered categories
For the ones in your screenshot
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Added with a disclaimer: ℹ️ (Not in default installation) I'm aware of your default apps document and but didn't know if they were officially addedd to the default installation since #5 is not marked as resolved yet. |
I see that With this in mind, the new entry should be called Dock or Dock Preferences if the Whisker Menu also includes a Dock launcher. |
Thanks for the changes. Here are some additional ones.
Nice
Just completed a new spreadsheet today in issue #5 to simplify what is hoped to get into the next release. I've shared it with the Xubuntu team for feedback and hope to finalize things this month if possible.
If we ship it by default, hopefully we can add a Dock entry to Look and Feel. |
I was wandering this, every screenshot shared here uses a "user logical" order. Updated.
I don't know why my installation says Desktop Settings
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Too literal 🤦♂️
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Thanks. Was trying out Ubuntu Budgie and they renamed 'Software & Updates' to 'Software Sources'. :D Here are some changes.
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Possible names so far:
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Renamed!. This is cool. Maybe i'll switch to a rolling release distro to check new xfce features. |
This was replaced with 'App Store'
This is similar to Software Updater and not a settings dialog.
Great that Mint is also using this naming, so let's go with that naming as well. Please change the renaming to 'Samba' to 'File Sharing'. |
Didn't do the renaming yet but this is how it looks with the rearrangement. If you want to give it a go, extract these files into ~/.local/share/desktop-directories/ extract this file into /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/menus/ (make sure to backup the file that's already there first) extract these files into ~/.local/share/applications/ for the entries for Sound and About System you'll also have to install deja-dup, timeshift, gufw, gadmin-samba, gnome-disk-utility, and synaptic. |
Thanks for the files, i'll check them out. I was going to suggest adding |
I wouldn't add File Manager Custom Actions to the Settings Manager, as its a setting of the file manager. Its the same reasoning not having the Xfce terminal settings. |
Some additional renaming Mate has Screensaver and Notifications under Look and Feel, so lets do the same. Mint and Budgie use Login Window, so do you like that over Login Screen? Add an 'Dock ( You have IBus Preferences in your screenshot, are you utilizing that? |
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I agree that having I also agree that this modification makes it clearer wich is the advanced one and that Updated ✔️ (one in Hardware and the other in System)
Ubuntu Mate uses Login Window too. While I like Login Screen (because it the whole screen after all) I think it would be better to use the name present in other Ubuntu flavours/remixes to make Xubuntu part of the same family. Updated ✔️ (window)
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Not really. I checked and it was installed as a dependency of Zoom wich I have to use for work 🤷♂️. On click it prompts me to start the daemon, so its just there using space. |
Thanks for the updates. Spoke with Sean today about what it would take to do the renaming and he said he would look into it. Regarding IBus, it seems its important for south east asian languages (chinese, japanese and korean), and I've suggested it be installed by default. By the way, which icon theme are you using? |
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That's great! |
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Improvements are needed to be made to settings manager, like the inclusion of additional launchers and potentially the reorganization of entries into new categories/groups.
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