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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KSplash/ML donation?
From:       Mosfet <dan.duley () verizon ! net>
Date:       2003-03-08 19:49:41
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On Saturday 08 March 2003 1:31 pm, Mosfet wrote:
BTW, this isn't *exactly* true. You can save the original config file first, 
but that's pretty messy. May be what we end up doing, tho.
..snip..
> As for b) I'm interpreting this to mean that you want to be able preview
> configuration changes before actually writing them permanently to a config
> file. I'd go one step further. The theme manager needs to be able to do
> both that and have some mechanism to change the settings of KDE Control
> Center modules before applying. Let's take wallpapers for example. I'd like
> the user to be able to both preview the wallpaper and modify it's settings
> like "tiled, centered, scaled, etc..." before applying. But the only way to
> get the background control center module to run with the new wallpaper set
> is by writing it to the config file first. This wouldn't let you cancel it.
> I ran into this problem with my replacement image part for Konq. It can set
> images as the background wallpaper but I wanted people to be able to
> configure it first. I couldn't get the control module to display the new
> one without applying it to the config file first. No good so I had to
> include my own.

 
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