Not really true. There are already tools in the KDE-Control-Panel which
require root-access (the Laptop/Powermanagement-settings). It also manages
some "general" settings (like Time/Date).
Also in most other operating systems (eg. Mac, Windows, Beos) there is a
central "Control-Panel" for both system-settings and "interface-settings".
Since many users come from those "different" OSes the approach of having
several different places to search for a tool (What about time-zone - this
is a traditionally user-level setting? What about Font-Installation - this
is usually quite desktop-interface related?) is making the computer look too
complex by far... Also keep in mind that even DrakConf accesses external
tools like LinuxConf which duplicate features...
The problem of having features only available to root is easily solved by
adding a small "lock"-icon (see
http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/shot2.html) to the control-panel-applet
which allows a user to "su" (or in this case propably kdesu) to root.
Finally Corel did this, too, in their distribution. It's quite handy to have
all settings in one place...
Michael
Kaixo!
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 02:45:06PM +0200, Michael Beurskens wrote:
> Or even better:
> Integrate the features of the DrakConf-Tools into the
> control-panels/-centers of KDE and Gnome...
I don't think it is necessarly a good idea.
DrakConf includes tools to manage the system/hardware/distribution; they
need root access, and are very specific to the distribution.
Gnome/KDE/whatever control panels manage their own GUI environment and
user setting, they don't need special privileges, and they are independent
of the distribution (only of the GUI environment).
Those are qite different things, and it is nice to have them separated I
think.
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