From kde-devel  Thu Jan 06 06:46:39 2005
From: "Gary L. Greene Jr." <greeneg () arklinux ! org>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:46:39 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Superlous configuration?
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On Thursday 06 January 2005 1:41 am, Scott Newton wrote:
> On Thursday, 06 January 2005 17:21, Michael Pyne wrote:
> > Well I don't really like the idea of making advanced users a third-class
> > citizen of KDE.  But this *is* an option that is likely to be set only
> > once in a blue moon.
> >
> > Perhaps what we need is a TweakUI for KDE.  Or if we wanted to be jazzy
> > about it, a TweakUI kioslave with a web interface accessible from
> > Konqueror ;). The problem with that is that it's essentially like having
> > two KControl programs, one for the "normal" options, and another for the
> > "unusual/advanced" options, which just seems weird to me.
>
> I vote for having delete and "move to trash" in the RM pop-up. The first
> thing I did when I read this thread was go and enable the delete because I
> wondered where it had disappeared to.
>
> One option for kcontrol would be have some sort of usability level with
> each option - say novice, intermediate, advanced - and have a option for
> the user to select their level with novice being the default. That way you
> can have very few options for those starting off but with the user having
> the option to show the more advanced ones rather if they so wish - rather
> than someone else deciding for them.
>
> It's one of the things I like about KDE - it's defaults are pretty good
> overall but I do have the option of easily browsing and changing them
> without burying myself is some form of complete unintelligible registry.

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