Xfce Wiki

While it is likely alright to use a central folder view, the important thing is that everything be linked to that one place. Perhaps something more like Webmin, where the existing modules are hooked in and non-existing ones are ignored.

It seems that if a particular module or component is being used in the DE or under it, then the Settings Manager must somehow reach out and link the inputs automatically.

Perhaps this can be done by requesting that the module or component programmer create a simple interface listing format suitable to the Settings Manager, which would list the particular and available user controls, which would allow them to be set by user interaction with the Settings Manager.

However, it is noted that non-Xfce components would have to have such a file created by the Xfce community for outside items such as X, or the Xscreensaver, or the monitor resolution, etc. from other levels of the OS.

The method should be up to the coder, but the idea must be implimented somehow for the benefit of the user.

The person who codes the Settings Manager could then utilize all available controls in the preferred arrangement, without any overt reference to which module or component is being controlled. This would eliminate duplications, separation of intuitively-related parts and streamline the whole process.