System Settings - rethought

[josephk at email.it]

Hello everyobdy,

My name is alex, I'm a FLOSS enthusiast and KDE is my DE of choiche.
I love its freedom and I want to invest in it.
Naturally it does have some pain points to me, for example System Settings
UX.
As user, I don't find its usability and design good. 
So I decided to stop complaining and do some work on the UI of the shell and
some of its modules.
So these mock-ups came out.

The design principles I've kept in mind are 
1) no feature removal
2) no power-user optimized UI
3) coherency among all modules
4) unclutter the most I can!

systemsettings.odg is the mock-up of the shell: Categories and modules are
re-organized and re-named.
systemsettings.odt describes those changes.
appearence.odg is the mockup of Appearence modules: basically, areas were
extended, buttons moved.
appearence.odt describes those changes.
systembackends.odg is a mock-up of Inforamtional Sources (?) module: Phonon
backends were added. 

and more to come..

At the end, I'm pretty satisfied with the results, so time has come to share
them to the right
people. I hope this could be the beginning of a discussion.

So, have a look and share your toughts!

Thanks, Cheers!
alex
 
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