[Bug 157587] Better organization of systemsettings

[Kamil Neczaj]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157587


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--- Comment #5 from Kamil Neczaj <kneczaj gmail com>  2008-09-17 13:03:08 ---
I'm also see spliting really similar options to two icons as a problem. For
egzample there is CDDB Retrieval and CD Audio. The CDDB should be merged to CD
Audio as an icon on the side panel. The same is with "Input Actions" and "Mouse
& Keyboard".

> 3 - What the heck with those 4 levels of organization ???? 
> 1st level: general/advanced 
> 2nd level: categories (Appearance, Personnal, ... ) 
> 3rd level: icons 
> 4th level: sometimes several icons in the widget on the left (like in Keyboard and Mouse) 

There is also 5th level: tabs, unfortunately

The 5th level should be flatted to 4th. In most of systemsettings' applets
there is a lot of space in side panel, so it would be better to move 5th level
tabs to side panel. For egzample the "Notifications" applet has in the sidebar
the icon "System Notification" and then tabs "Applications" and "Player
Settings". Let's move these categories from tabs to sidebar and integrate
"Player Settings" with "System Bell" which already is placed in the sidebar.

Another problem is:
There are three categories Computer Administration in general, System and
Advanced User Settings in the advanced tab.

In Computer Administration there are hardware options such as Keyboard & Mouse,
Display, Joystick and system options such as Date & Time and Font Installer.
The same is with Advanced User Settings there is Digital Camera or Audio CDs
which are hardware and many other options which are software options.

It would be better if there would be only two categories instead of three:
1. "Hardware" - there would be: Display, Joystick, Keyboard & Mouse (without
"Cursor Theme", but with "Input Actions"), Digital Camera, Audio CD (with
included CDDB), Sound, Solid.
2. "System Administration": Date & Time, Font Installer, Autostart, File
Associations, KDE Resources, KDE Wallet, Nepomuk, Service Manager, Session
Manager, Login Manager, Samba.
Both categories should be in advenced tab.


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