replacing kcontrol with system settings

jos poortvliet jos at mijnkamer.nl
Sun Jun 17 00:57:40 BST 2007


Op Sunday 17 June 2007, schreef Michael Pyne:
> On Friday 15 June 2007, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > The matching search term stuff, I never understood that. I think it's
> > useless, doesn't add anything, and I don't understand why Kcontrol added
> > it in the first place.
>
> It was probably added for the same reason quite a few other KDE
> applications added some form of on-the-fly searching, it makes the process
> of finding what you want much quicker.  It depends on modules having
> appropriate metadata of course but given that it's really a great way to go
> to look for modules that may configure what you're trying to change.

I have no problem with the search itself, I think it's great. But why does it 
present first a list of matches, you have to pick one, and THEN you can 
choose a module? It should just show the matches, imho.

> > And I also think when searching, the distinction between advanced and
> > normal should be removed. If you have 1 result in the normal tab, and 1
> > in advanced, it'd be totally silly to still have those two tabs. Just
> > merge them when searching.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Regards,
>  - Michael Pyne



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