[kde-doc-english] control center manual

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag, 2. Januar 2010 03:18:03 schrieb Jonathan Jesse:
> > awhile there was some discussion in regards to working on updating the
> > Control Center Modules, are all of these modules located in svn under
> > kdebase/workspace/kcontrol ? or am I missing some?  Been trying to figure
> > out which ones are not updated or missing.
> >
> These docs "should" be in a subdir doc/kcontrol of each module where the
> code
> is, eg:
> kdeadmin/doc/kcontrol
> kdegraphics/doc/kcontrol
> kdepimlibs/doc/kcontrol
> kdeutils/doc/kcontrol
> kdebase/runtime/doc/kcontrol
> kdebase/workspace/doc/kcontrol
> Exceptions of that rule are dolphin/kxkb/kscd/ and some more
>
> You find a lot of information about the status of all control modules on
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Documentation/ and its sub pages
>
> > So far I've noticed several problems (Note I am running Kubuntu 9.10 with
> > the KDE 4.4 Beta 2 packages installed):
> >
> > Multiple Monitors -- can't find a doc that covers that one (should be
> > kcmshell4 xinerama)
> >
> There is no doc for that, please write one.
> >
> > Keyboard -- There seems to be two entries for this in KHelpCenter
> >
> Yes, one of the known problems with Control Center Modules here. This has
> to
> be fixed in cooperation with kde-core-devel.
>
> > Keyboard Layout -- How does this section differ from the keyboard
> sections
> > already in KHelpCenter
> >
> kxkb - keyboard layout vs. general keyboard settings
>
> > CDDB Retrieval -- Can't find a document that covers this one (should be
> > kcmshell4 libkcddb)
> >
> You see the settings part of the kscd docbook here
>
> > General -- No idea what this is supposed to be
> >
> > General -- Section talks about Dolphin's settings, should be renamed?
> >
> This is one of the Dolphin/Konqui settings modules, can't be renamed now
> (String Freeze!). But this name is useless here.
> >
> > The other I have noticed is the docs seem to have different styles when I
> > open them up in KHelpCenter.  An example of this would be look at "Screen
> > Edges" vs "Joystick" vs  "Launch Feedback."  Would be nice if we could
> get
> > these all looking similar so they don't seem so eye jarring when
> navigating
> >
> I am in favour to remove this useless list of items and replace as I
> suggested
> already more than one year ago on this mailinglist, see my now of course
> otdated mail here:
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-doc-english&m=122303347319776&w=2
> >
> > What is the next step on these?
> >
> 1) update outdated/obsolete docs for kcm modules
> 2) fix khelpcenter navigation tree to display all these items in a
> structured
> and usefull way.
>
> --
> Burkhard Lück
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Thanks for the response, I'm learning how to help so will follow the link.
 I would argue for the removal of the outdated docs as well and will start
hacking around to update thngs.

Thanks for the response
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