On Friday 18 October 2002 04:35 pm, Austin Acton wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 16:17, scott chevalley wrote: > > I agree on most of these points, the only benefit being that it may then > > be possible to integrate the Drake tools into the Kde control center if > > they were based on QT. Other than that I just think that having a > > consistent interface that looks good is what matters, not what toolkit > > it uses. > > I think it's important that people (especially new people) realize that > kde isn't an integral part of Mandrake, and that Mandrake isn't an > integral part of KDE. Knowledgeable (even slightly) knowledgeable users > are our best asset: they provide financial support, and real-world > visibility for Mandrake. Convenience and usability are good, but > inadvertently retarding new users isn't good. > Since I don't think a KDE-integrated MCC would be THAT much more > convenient, I don't think the dumb-down factor is worth the work or the > slight convenience...
Actually, it would be an order of magnitude less confusing. People don't really understand why KDE is not an integral part of Mandrake, and they expect all the tools to be in one place. It is very confusing when you have a fonts panel in the Kde Control Center and one in MCC and you don't know which one to use. Another possibility is to get rid of the control center and make a folder called 'control panel' where we put both the drak* tools and the KDE config things. It would look kinda like Windows's control panel. -- -- Igor
