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Subject:    Re: Name of Control Center in KDE 4
From:       "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ariszl=F3?=" <ariszlo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-10-19 6:18:41
Message-ID: 86b51ff30710182318t373a81aej55ed045d0f0f7dc1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Yes, Settings Manager sounds good, although the old name of Control
Center is the best of all IMHO. System Settings is not a good cover
term for both system settings and user settings.

Ariszló

On 10/19/07, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Why would: "Settings Manager" be a better choice?
>
> There are three rules for a GUI:
>
>         Be consistent
>         Be consistent
>         Be consistent
>
> :-D :-D This is a joke, but it is also true.
>
> So, we need to be consistent.  And here it must be noted that having an
> executable called "systemsettings" is not consistent with our past
> practice.  The name of the executable for the Control Center is:
> "kcontrol" it is the "Name" is "Control Center".  This is not in the
> executable but rather in the 'desktop' file.
>
> So, we can settle half of this right away by calling the executable:
> "ksettings" which is a better name than "kcontrol".
>
> Then we could work on the other issue: what to use for the "Name" that
> the GUI will display.  Here we should try to make the names consistent
> with each other.  I notice that we have:
>
>         Package Manager
>         User Manager
>
> so it would be consistent to have:
>
>         Settings Manager
>
> We also have:
>
>         SysV-Init Editor
>
> but I don't like:
>
>         Settings Editor
>
> as well although it is OK.
>
> With our system, it is possible to set both the application's: "Name"
> and "GenericName" in the 'desktop' file -- the actual name of the
> executable is/can be totally hidden from the GUI.
>
> So, we should probably stop trying to determine the name for the
> executable based on what we want for the name that the GUI will display.
>   The current name for the executable is a poor choice because it is too
> long and it doesn't start with a 'k'.  We could continue to call it
> "kcontrol' and still have a different name in the GUI, or we could give
> it a new name such as: "ksettings".  It really makes little difference
> since this does not determine the name that will be shown in the GUI.
>
> So, I suggest that the executable be called either: "kcontrol" or
> "ksettings" (I prefer "kcontol" since there is no good reason to change
> it).  This leaves the question of the GUI names as an issue for the
> Usability Department to figure out.  And it is something which should be
> determined so that there is consistency in the GUI names.
>
> --
> JRT
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