RFC: KConfig XT (KDE 3.2)

Benjamin Meyer ben at meyerhome.net
Mon Mar 17 14:20:13 GMT 2003


On Monday 17 March 2003 7:56 am, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:51:32PM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > You're right.  The fact that I'd not heard of it proves it's not being
> > used as a reason to strip down KControl.  That's great.
> >
> :)
>
> i think that taking the existance of kconfedit into account
> could limit the size of the configuration dialogs by a fair
> bit in some places, its quite obvious that some options are
> there that are not needed by even 1% of the users. reducing
> the need that devels feel to add ui's for all these obscure
> options will probably increase devel productivity also.

The big option that comes to mind is the ability to turn on/off the menu bar.  
users are always confused about it and the only real use I know of is for 
fullscreen (i.e. kiosk or presentation).  This would be an excellent "hidden" 
feature.

> mvg,
> Alex





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