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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RFC: Changes to KControl for KDE 3.0
From:       Daniel Molkentin <molkentin () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-09-05 18:20:00
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Moin!

I have plans to change several stuff in KControl for KDE 3.0 to get a cleaner 
structure in both manners usability and code organisation:

1. Naming convertions:

All modules should be called kcm<modulename>, for example the modules to set 
up the font module should be called "kcmfonts" instead of simply "fonts". The 
current way (mixing up both) is extremely confusing. The directory holding 
the config module should always be called kcm<modulename>. Otherwise we might 
end up in situations like the "display" directory which holds the "style" 
module.

2. Reorganization of  the directory structure: 
All modules should be hosted in a subdirectory of the according main 
application. However, I see that there are cases where modules span across 
multiple applications or are system-wide settings in which case we could 
still put them under kcontrol/ (I'd even prefer another subdir like 
"generic").

3. Changes for suid root applets

The current behavior in terms of suid root applets is quite different. Either 
it shows a "disabled" (greyed-out) preview version or a message to press the 
"modify" button.

I'd like to change this to a new approach: All modules should get the preview 
by default. Additionally, a notification box "Press modify to get access to 
the module" with a "do not show this message again" checkbox should be placed.

Another thing is that all modules that need root access (and therefore usally 
affect the whole system" should move to the "system" cathegory. This would 
for example involve to split off the LISa configuration from the current LAN 
Browsing module and put the LISa module to "system" (I just got the 3rd bug 
report about that from people that think that the current approach is broken, 
I support that btw).

Comments, flames?

If not, I will happily implement and organize all these things (with some 
help from the CVS maintainers and alexxx of course ;)

Cheers,

</daniel>
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Daniel Molkentin | The K Desktop Environment | http://www.kde.org

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