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[Swâmi Petaramesh <858888@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Upgrading from Natty to Oneiric, and furthermore, comparing Natty and
Oneiric's machines, it's really impressive to notice how many features
have been lost in Gnome's Control Center, making Oneiric's one truly a
"Poor man's control center".

For example :

- No Screen Saver config in Oneiric (this one misses SO MUCH !)
- No Connection Window DM (GDM/LightDM...) config in Oneiric
- No Remote Desktop config icon...
- No "personal network shares" icon...
- No CompizConfig integration...
- No HD utility icon...
- No Gparted icon...
- No Synaptic / Package manager icon...
- No system monitor icon...
- No Computer janitor icon...
- No Network tools icon...
- No logs viewer icon...
- No password and keys management icon...

Many icons lead to poor or incomplete panels (energy / screen are very
poor...)

So WTF is left ? Is this the new iPad control panel or whatever ?

OTOH:
- The default applications are set in a completely stupid place ("System Information")

And OTOH:
- 2 different "Keyboard" and "Keyboard layout" icons in 2 different sections of Oneiric's CC: Makes no sense
- 2 "Ubuntu One" icons in Oneiric's CC: why not three ?

And OTOH:
- "Displays" and "Startup Applications" have migrated into the User Menu, where they have nothing to do (and will be very rarely used for most people except executives using videoprojectors for presentations, most of which don't use Linux anyway...) so we congest and clutter a menu with useless stuff for no reason.


What a mess !

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.92-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Sun Sep 25 15:01:09 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-04 (20 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup           19.92-0ubuntu2
 gnome-bluetooth    3.1.92-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 0.2.95-0ubuntu1

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric

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Title:
  [Oneiric] Poor man's control center

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Upgrading from Natty to Oneiric, and furthermore, comparing Natty and
  Oneiric's machines, it's really impressive to notice how many features
  have been lost in Gnome's Control Center, making Oneiric's one truly a
  "Poor man's control center".

  For example :

  - No Screen Saver config in Oneiric (this one misses SO MUCH !)
  - No Connection Window DM (GDM/LightDM...) config in Oneiric
  - No Remote Desktop config icon...
  - No "personal network shares" icon...
  - No CompizConfig integration...
  - No HD utility icon...
  - No Gparted icon...
  - No Synaptic / Package manager icon...
  - No system monitor icon...
  - No Computer janitor icon...
  - No Network tools icon...
  - No logs viewer icon...
  - No password and keys management icon...

  Many icons lead to poor or incomplete panels (energy / screen are very
  poor...)

  So WTF is left ? Is this the new iPad control panel or whatever ?

  OTOH:
  - The default applications are set in a completely stupid place ("System Information")

  And OTOH:
  - 2 different "Keyboard" and "Keyboard layout" icons in 2 different sections of Oneiric's CC: Makes no sense
  - 2 "Ubuntu One" icons in Oneiric's CC: why not three ?

  And OTOH:
  - "Displays" and "Startup Applications" have migrated into the User Menu, where they have nothing to do (and will be very rarely used for most people except executives using videoprojectors for presentations, most of which don't use Linux anyway...) so we congest and clutter a menu with useless stuff for no reason.

  
  What a mess !

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.92-0ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  Date: Sun Sep 25 15:01:09 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-04 (20 days ago)
  usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
   deja-dup           19.92-0ubuntu2
   gnome-bluetooth    3.1.92-0ubuntu1
   indicator-datetime 0.2.95-0ubuntu1

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