kcontrol empty

[Benjamin Meyer]

On Friday 02 February 2007 14:57, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 02 February 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On February 2, 2007, Marcus Hufgard (Kalkwerk Hufgard GmbH) wrote:
> > > I had a bad problem. Under the actuall svn build of KDE4 my control
> > > Center is empty. There is no index.
> > >
> > > I use kunbuntu and build the actuall svn.
> > >
> > > Do you have any idea?
> >
> > as matthias noted, use kcmshell for now (`kcmshell --list`) or write a
> > patch for kcontrol to look in the right place for control panels.. they
> > were moved to services/ out of the apps area.
>
> ... so the solution is to use KServiceTypeTrader to locate the available
> kcontrol services.
>
> I also think that kubuntu's systemsettings would make a much better user
> interface than the treeview approach. But that's orthogonal I guess, we
> need to locate the services before we can change the way they are
> presented. Which makes me wonder how systemsettings works: does it hardcode
> which modules to show and where, or does it use the desktop files for that.

It uses desktop files just like kcontrol

-Benjamin Meyer