ioslave configuration

[Frans Englich]

On Friday 21 January 2005 21:56, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 21:10, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Friday 21 January 2005 12:21, Hans Meine wrote:
> > > con: the settings menu is already quite large, and for example my dad
> > > does not open "configure konqueror" right away (in << 10 seconds) when
> > > looking for e.g. the java settings.
> > >
> > > pro: nevertheless, I am sure the overall accessibility of these
> > > settings is increased - currently, quite some people might not even
> > > guess that there *are* audiocd:/ options anywhere
> > >
> > > > But I still don't think that
> > > > putting ioslave configuration in konqueror is a good idea.
> > >
> > > I like your suggestion. ;-)
> >
> > I like it too.
> > I had exactly this problem two weeks ago: where to adjust the bitrate for
> > the audiocd ioslave.
> > I entered audiocd:/ and had a look at the settings menu. It wasn't there.
> > After some thinking I opened the control center and looked in components.
> > No there. Then I finally thought it could be in sound&multimedia and
> > there it was :-)
>
> I would not even know any more that there is a "sound&multimedia" item
> in the kcontrol TOC. I'd have used the "search" tab.
>
> Since about a year, I am using kcontrol --> search, and nothing else if
> I need to find anything. Works very fast.
>
> So in your case, I had typed "bit" (not knowing if it is spelt "bit
> rate" or "bitrate") -- and bingo!
>
> The search feature in kcontrol is the only thing that makes it still
> usable. [ Hmmm... so in line with one school of opinion that is
> currently popular on IRC, in blogs and on mailing lists, we should
> possibly abolish the search -- so it makes migration to a new
> tool as kcontrol successor hapen more quickly?  ;-P ]

Well, you could try kdenonbeta/kcontrol4, but I don't know how good idea that 
is since it has instant-search right up-front :)


Cheers,

		Frans