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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Use settings:/ in Konqeuror instead of KControl in 3.2?
From:       "Craig Drummond" <Craig.Drummond () gmx ! net>
Date:       2003-12-23 10:17:22
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> Craig Drummond (Monday 22 December 2003 13:06)
> > 1. There's no way (easy) to distinguish if clicking on an icon will open
> up
> > a kcontrol module, or will go deeper into the KControl tree. i.e. Top
> lev
> el
> > icons should be "folder"like. (This point applies all over KDE).
> 
> This is a problem, but I would prefer to keep the existing icons.  What I 
> would propose is the addition of suffixing each directory name with `/',
> each FIFO name with `|', and each name of an executable with `*',
identical to
>  the -F option to ls (and similarly, a checkbox to turn this off could be
adde
> d to  the Konqueror settings.

Well perhaps a the two icons could be merged at run time? i.e. sort of like
what konqueror does with "folder reflects contents"?

> 
> > 2. There's no way to access the "admin" mode of a module that can work
> >  in both user and admin mode - e.g. the font installer. This could be
> > rectified if "kcmshell" supported an "Admin" mode button like the
regular KControl
> > does.
> 
> The module itself, if it has an Admin mode, should have a wrapper with the
> Admin button...

Why? KControl at the moment handles this - so, therefore, should kcmshell.
Then there would be no need to change each module, just the kcmshell code.

> 
> -- 
> Sigþór Björn Jarðarson (Casey Allen Shobe)
> cshobe@softhome.net

Craig.

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