[Kmymoney-devel] Re: Add Regional Settings KCM to menu

[Cristian Oneț]

2011/7/26 Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at kde.org>:
> Hello all,
> some of you may be aware that Gnome devs have changed the name of the
> settins app to System settings. That means there is a clash with KDE's
> existing one. And that will cause troubles when we direct users to
> change the regional settings.
>
> Therefore, I propose we add this option to KMM's menu, so users can
> access that KCM straight from our application and don't rely on
> Systemsettings anymore, as it won't be accessible to those using
> Gnome.
>
> I strongly suggest we do it before this release, because the problem
> is already there.

I've been following the discussion on k-c-d. I don't think that the
locale settings should be available in KMyMoney's settings dialog
because I feel that it could give a user the false feeling that he is
changing KMyMoney settings in there.

After all we use the locale setting of the KDE config system and if
that is not set to a proper value (read from the system locale or
something like that), when running another DE, then that's a config
system problem.

I really don't agree with the 'application should be standalone'
arguments in all aspects because then you'll end up duplicating a lot
of settings and it does not seem right to change a system setting from
the application (although I think we already do that). That's where a
'platform' comes in it should provide some services upon which to
build an application.

And other then gaining a shortcut for 'kcmshell4 locale' what would be
the benefits. One does not need 'System settings' to run that because
from what I understood the KCM modules are not part of the system
settings application.