kcontrol empty

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On February 2, 2007, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> There's a of system settings ported to KDE 4 from a while ago in
> branches/work/kde4/playground/base/systemsettings/, I'd certainly be
> happy to help move this to trunk if nobody objects to it replacing the
> current kcontrol.

i'd be cool with that, but is also implies a LOT of work that needs go into 
the individual kcm's since they are really written with a "big tree of crap" 
model in mind which simply doesn't map nicely to a system setting style. in 
fact, they end up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

during the process of moving to system settings (if that is what we do), some 
really important things we need to look at during the process of kde4:

 - rethinking kcm's
 - handling root privileges properly
 - indexing metadata effectively for search goodness
 - integrating help and navigation better than system setting scurrently does 
it

does that map to your thoughts in any way? =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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