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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Theming manager [was: Re: KDE 3.1]
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-03-29 19:16:10
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:03:27PM -0500, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> > It should be a separate app.
> > Just imagine it to be something like a media-player: you can insert any
> > kind of file (MEDIAPLAYER: mp3, avi, mpeg, etc. THEMEMGR: ico, thm, tgz,
> > ... - the user doesn't have to care about the filetype) and presses "play"
> > (THEMEMGR: "install"). If some kind of default option doesn't fit the user
> > has to go into the settings (which should be kcm-modules).
> 
> I can understand the argument but this would increase the complexity of config 
> issues in KDE and will increase the probability of race conditions by 
> redundancy.

The idea of having it in a seperate application appeals me since it allows a 
very low-knowledge way of configuring KDE.
For this reason having it external means that most users will pick either this
application of KControl so race conditions are not really an issue. 

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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