[Bug 152495] New: Components missing in KSettings::Dialog

[Thomas McGuire]

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           Summary: Components missing in KSettings::Dialog
           Product: kdelibs
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdelibs-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: Thomas.McGuire gmx net


Version:           trunk (KDE4) (using KDE KDE 3.95.0)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
OS:                Linux

KSettings::Dialog is seriously broken at the moment.

In Kontact, which is probably the heaviest user of it, several things are missing:

- It is not possible anymore to deselect the summary, notes todo or journal plugins (probably more)
- There is a checkbox at Summary->Components, even though that is only a config page and can not be deselected
- The checkboxes in the treewidget look ugly

This is all because the code was refractored, without taking Kontact into account.
In KDE3, there was a "Select Components" button, which allowed you to select the components. In KDE4, this has been replaced by checkboxes alongside the treewidget items. This can not work, because some components, like notes or todo, don't have a config page and are not shown in the treewidget. Therefore it is not possible to enable or disable them.

I think the old "Select Component" button worked much better.
Currently, this dialog is useless for Kontact.