[Bug 160557] Selecting a module in systemsettings should always be with single-click

[Aaron Peterson]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160557





--- Comment #8 from Aaron Peterson <alpeterson gmail com>  2008-11-16 22:34:15 ---
(In reply to comment #7)

>... icons looks the same, 
If they represent files, they don't act like it.  Really it comes down to how
they are to be used.   If they need to behave like buttons, they need to
operate like buttons.  When it comes down to it everything can be represented
by a file.  The system settings layout is very good,

 I sat down infront of a vista computer, and saw an AOL menu like mess of
cluttered icons and was very glad that I have KDE.  Microsoft  totally botched
their Vista control panel, LOL, they even lost their file like view of them.

Main confusing thing with KDE is that somebody made a setting global in a way
that isn't sensitive with how things are actually used.  I'll work a bit more
on my UI event classification at catproof

labels looks the same, and now
> all of the sudden user has to remember exactly which app violates settings and
> which does not violate the settings.

 System Settings violates that.

> 
> UI should be consistent in whole KDE, without taking "short paths".
> 
Exactly, the System Settings behave like buttons, so we should interact with
them like buttons.    Right now somebody took a shortcut to make everything
require manipulation in the same way, regardless if it makes sense or not.

System Settings is by far the best start in system configuration management
that I have seen.  It just needs a few tweaks.

I'll take a look at the code, and it's probably a one line fix. I'll be unable
to fix it because I don't have the development environment up yet :(   

This should probably be classified as a Jr Job


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