Fwd: changes in kcontrol

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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On Monday 15 July 2002 12:41, Thomas Zander wrote:
> The same Desktop KCM has been ripped apart into 5 modules; these modules
> should really be part of the Look&Feel since that is what it is about.
> But then you get 2 levels, which is something you don't want.

i think one of the goals is to get rid of the amorphous "Look and Feel" 
category all to gether.

> In the end only having less options makes it easier to search through the
> huge list, and the restructuring has made it worse, not better!

yes... but this doesn't mean we shouldn't restructure, we just need to do it 
"right" ...

> The konqueror kcm (the one started from konq with the list of sections, not
> the stuff from the control center) has gotten rather long, and grouping has
> been totally lost, I simply can't find where to enable/disable the loading
> of flash animations anymore!

this is indeed another part of the fallout: reflecting the changes in various 
application configuration dialogs as well ...

> I don't want to make people feel unconfortable;

me neither... i'm estatic to see this getting worked on, but i also realize we 
really have only one chance to get this right and a set of looming deadlines.

i'd also like to point out that we are going to end up spending fairly large 
amounts of translation and documentation resources on this. let's not forget 
the people who are going to have to come in behind this effort to document 
and translate. our choices in this as developers have very real 
ripple-effects.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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