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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Name of Control Center in KDE 4
From:       Allen Winter <winter () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-10-12 19:12:42
Message-ID: 200710121512.42684.winter () kde ! org
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On Friday 12 October 2007 12:13:43 pm Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Friday 12 October 2007 10:10:01 am David Jarvie wrote:
> >> On Friday 12 October 2007 15:05, Allen Winter wrote:
> >>> Remind me again why we can't use "Control Center" ?
> >> We could, although the consensus seems to be that that isn't a good name.
> >> But in that case we should rename the System Settings window and its entry
> >> in the system menu to 'Control Center'.
> >>
> > The options so far AFAIK are:
> > 1) personal settings
> > 2) user settings
> > 3) system settings
> > 4) control center
> > 
> > I vote for option #4.
> 
> I don't, unless there is going to be a "classic" mode.
> 
> (As an admitted power user), I hate the WinXP-style control panel, and 
> I'm not crazy about this new "system settings" thing for pretty much the 
> same reason. If the application currently known as "system settings" is 
> going to force the "wizard" interface on me, I am most likely going to 
> try to revive kcontrol at some point, in which event we would have a 
> name collision :-).
> 
If this unfortunate situation were to arise, then you could revive
kcontrol as the "KDE Classic Control Center".   And then there
wouldn't be a name conflict.
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