The Role of KInfoCenter

[David Edmundson]

I agree with your sentiment. Putting a command line tool in a window is useless.

I think there is scope for /something/ even if it's not the current state.

The system information page is really good
The energy page is really good (as a concept at least. The graph
implementation isn't something I can be proud of)

As for the PCI and USB devices:
I think it's a reasonable debugging level to want to find out if my
printer doesn't work because print-manager can't see it, or the
computer can't see the device at all.
That's something I can easily imagine a non-command-line user wanting to do.

I think the added value that we can bring over the command line tools
is reducing the noise and selecting what's useful.

So IMHO USB should hide the hubs, just have name and manufacturer of
devices and that's all.
Then it's actually useful again. I'd probably use that myself.

David