[Idea] Move the control center to the top menu level

[amano]

Summary:
For those who just use just the main menu in their panel, make the GNOME control center more accessible by moving it to the menu top level.

Scope and Use Cases:
Perry uses just the main menu in his panels to save more space (the plain Ubuntu symbol without the "Appliances - Places - System". Without the fix he has to hover the mouse over the System submenu, scan the options, find the control center and click it. Now he can access the control panel directly without browsing into a subfolder that doesn't group any useful options besides the control panel itself.

Rationale:
In the plain main menu applet in the panel Gnome App Install is accessible by one click! The Control Center is not (you have to hover over a submenu and then . A wise choice?

Why do we have to search the GNOME control panel in the system submenu, just make it a top level link. The submenu is unneccessary, since it doesn't offer any content any more with the lists removed. There is just the GNOME Info and Ubuntu Info in there and a link to the help (which could also be made top level - and would probably be worth it).

Implementation Plan:
1) make a link to the control center just below the G-A-I link --> to make it more accessible (you can da so so as well for the Help link
2) let people still show (by checking it in alacarte) the system sub-menu --> for those who prefer the old ists.
3) Eventually add an "Info" item to the control center itself, to keep the GNOME info and the Ubuntu info accessible.

[smartboyathome]

Wasn't the control center origionally going to replace the menus in Feisty? Also, why do you need the control center when you can do everything with the menus (there is no real gain of using the control center right now)?

[snickers295]

that is a good idea because i am getting tired of browsing thought system>preferences.
the gain is ease of use.
people fresh off of windows would probably like it because its like the control panel in windows.

[smartboyathome]

Also, wasn't this proposed in Feisty? Anyway, I would say a little more integrations should be done between the programs installed by default and GNOME Control Center.

[snickers295]

yup i agree with you there.

[DizzyTech]

I think the Preferences menu should be replaced with the Gnome Control Panel, and still say "Preferences".

[snickers295]

that is a good idea too.

[Zdravko]

Good but not very important proposal.

[bethaviv]

Good but not very important proposal.

What's important to one person may not be important to another. Frankly, organizing the menus better would make the system for user friendly.

[Next.Step]

I like the idea.

[Zdravko]

Okay. I like it now too.

[Next.Step]

what made you change your mind?

[m0eman]

I kind of do a mix of both, I have the control centre in my top level of the menu(for when I want to change more than one thing) and then the preferences under system when I quickly need to change one thing.

I do think it is a good idea, the preferences menu is getting too big, even with the combining of appearance options.

[Zdravko]

what made you change your mind?

Dunno. I change my mind frequently.

[amano]

I found this proposal for a new Ubuntu menu in the hardy blueprints: I wonder if this ubuntu menu will replace the existing ones or will just be a third possibility.

Then we have just a plain Ubuntu icon which opens the menu.
Then the icon with Application - Places Preferences next to it
And the new Ubuntu menu?