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

[aga]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:29:21 +0200
Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> on Tuesday 26 July 2011 16:12:23 David Houlden wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 26 July 2011 12:28:35 Cristian Oneț wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Perhaps I am not understanding this discussion but "kcmshell4
> > language" is already in the kmymoney settings menu and it puts out
> > a warning that changes made will affect all kde applications.
> 
> That's what I thought when starting to read the thread on k-c-d (I
> still have 74 of them unread). And for the GNOME users among ours we
> put that menu item in long time ago. So I think we're in a (more or
> less) safe harbor this time. One idea just crossed my mind: can we
> detect if we run under a KDE DE and then don't show this option so it
> only there for those non-KDE DE users? This could even be done w/o a
> string change.
> 

Is there a good reason for it to go?  I've made use of it quite a lot,
admittedly not in live work, as it's a lot easier to use than go through
System Settings.  It's been there quite a while and I've not heard of
it causing confusion.

Allan