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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: replacing kcontrol with system settings
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2007-06-14 21:58:39
Message-ID: 200706142358.39830.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> This is a frontend to kcontrol module with a user interface which
> scales better for users compared to the simple tree view of kcontrol.

It's still got its share of big problems. It's a simple carbon-copy of OS X 
preferences app -- without the only really useful bit of the origial, the 
feature where you can drag often used control panel icons onto a bar. And its 
layout management is definitely not good enough; it wastes oodles of screen 
space, especially if you open it after having used a big control panel last 
time. The tile bars under icons show really weird word breaks (User - 
Managemen - t on my system). And after years of claiming that having ordinary 
and advanced buttons wasn't a solution, that's just what system settings 
provides.

Not that I oppose your proposal; it's just that I think that if anything, 
system settings is not in any way beyond mediocre. But then, KControl, 
although not such a blatant clone of somebody else's work, isn't really 
better.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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