F14 gnome-control-panel appearance

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 22:58 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 13:47 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 22:36 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 17:33 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 09:18 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 05:01 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > > > > Is this hidden somewhere, missing or not included any longer?  I can't
> > > > > > seem to find it at all.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Parts of it will reappear soon, in different form.
> > > > 
> > > > The whole of it will reappear for F14, it will be gone gone in F15 (eg.
> > > > with GNOME 3).
> > > > 
> > > Means with Gnome3 we'll be stuck with whatever the default
> > > gtk(3)-engine, mutter/metacity theme, notification-daemon engine, fonts,
> > > cursors, backgrounds will be or we will have to resort to gconf (dconf?)
> > > handywork? Seems like a huge step backwards to me...
> > 
> > He didn't say there would be nothing to *replace* it.
> 
> I didn't understand whether he meant it will be gone altogether or
> whether it will be replaced by something else -- hence the question. I'm
> sorry if I phrased it too poorly...

The new personalisation panel will only allow you to change background
and screensaver. Changing themes/fonts of all kinds for accessibility
purposes will be in the a11y panel (should already be in master
upstream).

If you want to tweak your UI, either use dconf/GConf, or wait until
Vincent writes (or start writing it, the control-center API is
exported :):
http://www.hadess.net/2010/02/were-removing-settings-again.html

Cheers