Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

[Arx Cruz]

Hello,

Why not use Gnome System Settings and KDE System Settings instead?
So this can be visible in both environments, and the user will know what he
needs to change.
Internally I believe both can keep System Settings.

Using Gnome/KDE System Settings the user will know which one he want's to
use.

Regards,
Arx Cruz

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Sergey Udaltsov
<sergey.udaltsov at gmail.com>wrote:

> > This is what happens when you mix and match bits and pieces from
> > different operating systems. There is really not much that can be done
> > about it. Since that is what both KDE and GNOME are trying to do:
> > build complete, self-contained systems.
> So far we are running the same OS (for most of us it is Linux, but it
> can be Solaris or *BSD). DE != OS. And the system can be multiuser -
> which sometimes means both KDE and GNOME can be present in the same
> installation. Also, some, especially semi-professional apps are not
> going to be duplicated in both environments (I am not talking about
> text editors or calculators) - so there are relatively high chances
> that the user would need both sets of settings, for KDE and GNOME (in
> that sense having ShowOnlyIn can be a bad idea - some "foreign" apps
> would become not configurable).
>
> The best idea really would be to define the mechanism of feeding the
> settings into "foreign" apps. Both directions, GNOME (desktop) ->KDE
> (apps) and KDE (desktop) -> GNOME (apps). If we have that, in addition
> to ShowOnlyIn, user could never notice that the system has two
> variants of "System Settings". The only problem with that approach is
> that some settings can be defined only in one DE. In that case, sane
> default values could be the only choice..
>
> Sergey
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