KDE 3.4 Control Center UI Review

[Frans Englich]

On Sunday 13 February 2005 18:01, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:31:50PM +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Splashscreens in general:
> > - "KDE Control Center" text truncated.
>
> Fix now in CVS.
>
> > Sony Vaio Laptop
> > - Combine somehow with IBM Thinkpad laptop, or suppress because I don't
> > have either
>
> I really can't think of any way of detecting whether a given computer
> is a thinkpad or a vaio or not.  In a proprietry operating system you
> don't get this problem because the drivers are only installed (by you
> or manufacturer) if you know it's a thinkpad etc.  Not so for KDE.

But if it were, it would be possible because the groundwork is in place. With 
the new code in kutils it is possible to make modules detect whether they 
should be shown or not. I've written it for a couple, xinerama and the 
joystick KCMs IIRC, but intentionally left out those laptop KCMs because it 
was too messy(needed refactoring). Anyway, in KDE 4, we can make the new 
KControl, whatever that will be, conditionally load modules.


FYI,

		Frans