Review Request 118388: rename systemsettings binary to systemsettings5

[Ben Cooksley]

> On May 29, 2014, 7:10 a.m., Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > Code wise, this change looks fine. In terms of renaming the desktop files - i'm fine with changing the filenames, but please don't change the name of the application itself. Ideally the KF5 based system settings will still be able to set configuration details relevant for KDE 4 applications.
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> Hrvoje Senjan wrote:
>     >Ideally the KF5 based system settings will still be able to set configuration details relevant for KDE 4 applications.
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>     that sounds great to me - just that it would need work in every kcm module. additional caveats:
>     what if there's only 4.x variant of the kcm?
>     an option is removed in KF5 variant?
>     most importantly - how to implement it (different config locations, etc)? =)
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> Ben Cooksley wrote:
>     Indeed, that could complicate things quite a bit. I'm not sure what we should do in that case then - but we can't have two "System Settings" applications installed which do different things on the same system....
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     it's kind of the same situation as we had during the KDE3 -> 4 transition. We had kcontrol to configure KDE3 and systemsettings to configure KDE4.
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>     The big problem for the developers is that we don't have any access to the KDE4 configuration files, thus it's difficult to adjust the configuration. Now to make it even more complex: should adjusting e.g. the widget style in a Plasma Next session really change the widget style of a Plasma 4 session or just in Plasma Next?

I'm guessing that KDE4 applications probably won't be able to make full use of Plasma Next themes, assuming they keep full compatibility (elements over time may get new names, change format, etc).

The problem in this case is that the applications have the same name. Should we come up with a new name for the Plasma Next series, or does a mechanism exist to only show particular *.desktop files under Plasma Next / KDE4?

In any case, the changes to rename the binary and the filenames of the *.desktop files themselves can go ahead - they're independent of this discussion.


- Ben


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On May 28, 2014, 7:32 p.m., Hrvoje Senjan wrote:
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> (Updated May 28, 2014, 7:32 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Ben Cooksley.
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> Repository: systemsettings
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> Description
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> while workspace might not be targeted to co-exist with 4.x variant - systemsettings should IMHO be able to co-exist. not only workspace components are adjusting in there, and telling people to do kcmshell$notinstalledvariant $wantedkcm is very user-unfriendly...
> one TODO if this gets a green light, is to rename desktop files, so people know which variant they are opening.
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> Diffs
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>   app/systemsettings.desktop 5f27318 
>   app/kdesystemsettings.desktop 946d498 
>   app/CMakeLists.txt c45f7e7 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118388/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Hrvoje Senjan
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