replacing kcontrol with system settings

[Robert Knight]

+1

I support the proposal, I find it easier to locate settings of
interest in System Settings vs. KControl.  Plus, it looks better (and
has the potential for a little more 'candy).  Oh, and of course the
name is more obvious.

The bugs Boudewijn mentioned are presumably all fixable.

>  It's a simple carbon-copy of OS X
> preferences app -- without the only really useful bit of the origial, the
> feature where you can drag often used control panel icons onto a bar.

What in the System Settings dialog is used frequently enough that it
is useful to have on the panel?

Regarding it being a copy of the OS X application, we can always dress
it up a bit to give it a KDE spin.

Regards,
Robert.


On 14/06/07, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > This is a frontend to kcontrol module with a user interface which
> > scales better for users compared to the simple tree view of kcontrol.
>
> It's still got its share of big problems. It's a simple carbon-copy of OS X
> preferences app -- without the only really useful bit of the origial, the
> feature where you can drag often used control panel icons onto a bar. And
> its
> layout management is definitely not good enough; it wastes oodles of screen
> space, especially if you open it after having used a big control panel last
> time. The tile bars under icons show really weird word breaks (User -
> Managemen - t on my system). And after years of claiming that having
> ordinary
> and advanced buttons wasn't a solution, that's just what system settings
> provides.
>
> Not that I oppose your proposal; it's just that I think that if anything,
> system settings is not in any way beyond mediocre. But then, KControl,
> although not such a blatant clone of somebody else's work, isn't really
> better.
>
> --
> Boudewijn Rempt
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