Let's start off on the right foot, let's fix simple-ccsm.

[Tom Syroid]

Hi Jorge, et al.
Anyone had a change to look at this:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/confity-lets-you-configure-unity-easily/

Saw it this morning, but haven't had a chance to play with it yet.
Might be deserve a look for what you're suggesting below.

/tom

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Jorge O. Castro <jorge at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I think a good place to start for power users is to have a nice config
> tool for Unity. In the archive we have simple-ccsm, which has been
> shipped for a long time, and when installed hooked into the appearance
> dialog as a config tool. It just needs to be updated to set Unity
> configure options instead of the cube, etc.
>
> It lives here: http://git.compiz.org/compiz/compizconfig/simple-ccsm/
>
> Here's what we need:
>
>  - Someone to spec up what a Unity config tool would look like, what
> it's job is, and what it's supposed to do and not do. Here's an
> example of a spec: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter/
>
> - Someone needs to engage the ayatana community and help with the spec
> so we know what the tool should look like and how it should behave.
> This discussion all feeds back into the design of the tool (and in the
> spec)
>
> - Everyone (this is the hard part) needs to help find Python folks who
> can make the modifications and modify the tool to be what the spec
> says, including tests, etc.
>
> - Someone needs to start importing the code into launchpad and making
> a PPA so people can start testing it as soon as possible.
>
> And I probably forgot things but I figure this is enough to get the
> discussion started.
>
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