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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: "Lost and Found" section of System Settings
From:       Martin =?iso-8859-1?q?Gr=E4=DFlin?= <kde () martin-graesslin ! com>
Date:       2010-12-31 10:47:43
Message-ID: 201012311147.52214.kde () martin-graesslin ! com
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On Friday 31 December 2010 11:33:08 Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 02:09, Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org> 
wrote:
> > On Friday 31 December 2010 Trever Fischer wrote:
> >> We do not want to downplay the fact that some developer didn't put their
> >> .desktop file into the right category. The whole reason we switched from
> >> the previous structure was because people would just use the 'advanced'
> >> or 'misc' sections as a dumping ground and eventually *everything*
> >> started looking like an 'advanced' feature.
> > 
> > What about not showing modules at all, which don't have the correct meta
> > data? If modules don't correctly identify themselves their quality might
> > just not be up to the level desirable for inclusion in system settings.
> 
> I have to disagree with that. I have come across some third-party KCMs
> in the Arch Linux AUR which, while maybe not well maintained, are
> still of good use, and may not have a better alternative.
In that case it would be the task of the package maintainer of the distro to 
ensure that the correct metadata is set. It's a task of probably less than 
five minutes.

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