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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Some prelimary work on a new KControl...
From:       Nilesh Bansal <nilesh () iitb ! ac ! in>
Date:       2004-02-25 20:41:26
Message-ID: 403D05A6.8080501 () iitb ! ac ! in
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In KDE almost everything is configurable, but a newbie never wants to do 
all that. We can have a drop down box below "What's This" which will say 
select "Basic Mode",  "Advanced Mode" and "Administrator Mode".

Advanced Mode - Same as present  proposed  kcontrol.
 
Basic Mode -  Not many options. Like under heading Look and Feel we can 
have 1. Background 2. Screen Saver 3. Theme 4. Splash Screen 5. Panel 6. 
Icons. In background kcm of basic mode, blending and gradient 
configurations should be removed. Similarly, for icons the advanced tab 
should be removed.  As far as theme is concerned, a user can change  
windows decoration, colour settings and style, but instead for a newbie 
there should be some 5-6 themes selecting which should change all window 
decoration, colours and style(the idea is somewhat similar to theme kcm 
that was in KDE 2.x, but that time theme kcm was very bad).

Administrative Mode - SuSE supplies YaST, mandrake has drakconf. A user 
uses KControl for desktop related settings and for install remove 
software, configuring apache/ftp/firewall etc uses YaST. KControl can be 
very extendible by providing various modes(administrative mode) where a 
user can find more "System" specific configuration stuff then "User" 
specific. YaST kcm's, and various other kcontol modules for configuring 
ftpd/system services/package installation/firewall can be included in 
this section.

IMO atleast basic mode should be there or there should be something like 
KControl-lite.

-- 
Nilesh Bansal
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/nilesh/

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