replacing kcontrol with system settings

[David Jarvie]

On Friday 15 June 2007 2:45, Kelly wrote:
> On Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:12 pm Robert Knight wrote:
> Personally, I hated System Settings from the moment I first saw it.  It
> practically forces the dumb Windows style click-and-close administration
> system that causes people to stop looking at what they're clicking...

The new interface is fine provided that it's truly obvious which icon to
pick for the setting you're wanting to change. Unfortunately in practice
there are always options which live in non-obvious places. For these, a
tree view (such as in KControl) is a much less frustrating way of finding
things, since you can expand more than one section and have all the
expanded tree sections visible at the same time. With the proposed
approach, you have to try one icon; if that turns out to be wrong, go
back, try another - but if that doesn't seem to contain the setting
either, and you need to go back to the first one again, it's all more
fiddly and annoying. Yes, I know there is a search field, but personally I
don't tend to use such things except in desperation.

It might look nicer (subject to the caveats Boudewijn mentioned), but I'm
sceptical as to whether it will be better in practice.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm