[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: System Settings categorisation overhaul
From:       David Jarvie <djarvie () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-10-03 12:48:34
Message-ID: 200910031348.34494.djarvie () kde ! org
[Download RAW message or body]

On Saturday 03 Oct 2009 07:50:56 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Currently in System Settings the categories structure is not very easy
> to use, and makes finding settings harder than it should be. In order
> to correct this, a complete re-structure of the modules is required,
> removing the General / Advanced sorting and giving modules clear
> names.
> 
> Dario Andres ( from bugsquad ) and myself have been working on this
> and have developed the following plan at this time for the modules
> [1]. Please see the following mockup to see how this would look [2].
> This is aimed at KDE 4.4 at this point, and we hope to commit it next
> week assuming no changes need to be made. We would appreciate
> everyone's comments on this.

This looks generally good, and should help people to navigate around. Some 
titles are too technical for the general user, and need to be renamed:
 - PIM Resources
 - Plasma Containments
 - Semantic Search.

And, as Sebas says, optical devices are a type of removable device, so it 
seems odd to have two separate categories for these.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]