I like 9.0rc2 very much. I am still testing it. However, the user interface
of Mandrake control center et al. is still inconsistent on my system.
(9.0rc2)
Sometimes, kdesu is used, sometimes it is another application.
For example, for Software Sources, the KDE menu item calls
/usr/sbin/edit-urpm-sources.pl
while for the MDK Control Center, it calls
/usr/sbin/drakconf
While drakconf spawns a kdesu dialog, edit-urpm-sources.pl spawns a GTK
dialog without themes and does it in such way that the KDE application
startup icon gets messed up just like if it could not lauch the
application.
Other applications such as menudrake or the password change application show
a very uggly theme (buttons, menus) under KDE (while this is not the case
of the MDK Control Center which shows a nice theme with gray gradients or
for userdrake).
The problem is quite general : it seems that there is no policy for
consistency among Mandrake configuration applications on the way themes
should be rendered or on the way root passwords should be asked to the
user. Sometimes, it is kdesu, sometimes it is something else. Sometimes,
there are nice themes, sometimes it is plain uggly flat rendering of menus
and buttons.
Also, (I do not know if that was taken into account), I think that it would
be nice if the /root directory contained all the required default settings
for propper rendering of themes without requiring users to first login as
root before they get consistent themes under KDE whenever they call
Mandrake Control Center.
JPS.
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