[kde-linux] Re: Individual Desktop Settings

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday, 2011-04-15, Dale wrote:

> The reason is this, kcontrol lets a person know it is a KDE thing and
> not a system thing.  For most long term Linux users, system means that
> it is global.  As a example, if I make a change in xorg.conf, it is a
> system wide change.  Any change there will affect ALL users.  Same could
> be said for lots of other files.  That just happened to be a GUI one.
> 
> If you use systemsetting, AKA Kcontrol, to change a setting, it only
> affects the one user and has nothing to do with others or the system
> itself.  The only exception to that I can think of would be the section
> concerning the login and splash screen but that is actually a kdm
> setting and you have to be root to change it.  When you have to type in
> root to get access, it is usually a system setting of some sort.
> 
> The point Duncan and Alex is making is that the name is misleading.  It
> really doesn't change any "system" settings at all, just user settings.
> 
> I have to agree with Duncan and Alex.  It is confusing and I really
> don't see any reason why it should have been changed to begin with.  The
> old name worked fine and was more accurate.  That said, it's not like
> KDE hasn't made bad decisions before   Don't get us started on the
> dropping KDE3 before KDE4 was ready, some would argue KDE4 still isn't
> ready.  Anyway, I better stop there before we get this ball rolling again.
> 
> On the other hand, I wish it was something besides a K in the front
> sometimes.  There are a lot of kernel processes that start with k as
> well.  I guess because kernel starts with a k.  :/

It has to be called something. KControl is not that accurate either because it 
can contain setting modules for non KDE settings (as you have already 
mentioned yourself).

Maybe settings manager or settings center.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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