From kde-usability  Mon Jul 26 20:35:12 2004
From: Craig Drummond <Craig.Drummond () gmx ! net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:35:12 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: kcontrol
Message-Id: <200407262135.13068.Craig.Drummond () gmx ! net>
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On Tuesday 27 Jul 2004 01:55, Datschge wrote:
> > It means the control panels don't have to be kcm modules. This way
> > it would be easier for RedHat and Mandrake to integrate their
> > control panels with the KDE one - instead of having two control
> > panels, with some duplicated functionality.
>
> In that particular case you should put "integrate" in quotes since
> KControl would then be nothing more than an application starter apps,
> with the apps just happening to be used for configuring something.
> I'd rather ask for higher integration (eg. tighter search) instead
> going the reverse direction.

I agree. In an Ideal world all the distros would create kcm modules for their 
config tools. However, apart from SuSE, this is not going to happen. (Even 
with SuSE the integration is not very tight - why aren't the modules in the 
relevant section, as opposed to just in "YaST"?)

Craig.
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