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Subject: KControl Suggestion (was: Re: new libkdecore and kcmdisplay)
From: "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" <yannaigo () leyada ! jlm ! k12 ! il>
Date: 1999-03-12 9:59:56
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Antonio Larrosa wrote:
> Please everyone, write below what you think this class should manage :
>
> - language (already)
> - date format (dd/mm/yyyy , yyyy/mm/dd , etc)
> - currency
- (maybe merge with "international keyboard"?)
- currenct ($/...) and its placement compared to the number ($1000/1000$)
- Number format (1000/1,000), (5.3/5,0), ...
- Long date (Monday, February 13, 1998)
- Short date (dd/mm/yyyy)
- One of: (or both)
Time w/o seconds (13:23, 1:23 AM)
Time w/ seconds (13:23:33, 1:23:33 AM)
- Support for different calenders (Gregorian, Hebrew, others...) (Maybe
there should be a differently configurable Long/Short date format for each
calender).
- Week begins on: Sunday/Monday(/other?)
- Current Time Zone/Daylight Savings time on/off.
For all the above, it would be cool if the user selected his/her
geographical location (country, state if applicable, or language district
like Swiss/German, Swiss/French, ...), and default options would be guessed
for everything.
Even better for the novice user: Select only a country. There could be an
option of a <More options...> button for more advanced users (or maybe only
include some of the options, and show the others in "More options").
Which brings another idea:
As of KDE 1.1, the kcontrol is loaded with very many options/configurations
which are frightening for a novice user.
My suggestion:
(1) Have in a main place in kcontrol a switch like "Show Basic Configuration
Options Only (recommended for novice users)"/"Show Advanced Configuration
Options", which will control what the user sees (this could vary from hiding
an entire kcm like the windows->advanced kcm, hiding a few buttons on some
kcms, or even doing nothing to some other kcms).
(2) In addition: When single-clicking on a configuration group in kcontrol
(Applications / Desktop / Information / Network / etc...), load all the
modules in that group to the kcontrol "right side", and allow the user to
switch between them using the tabs (which already exist there).
Comments / Flames / Others?
Regards,
Yannai.
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