Kubuntu maintains a very upstream friendly policy. Meaning if the systemsettings upstream maintainer is not cool with either of the changes proposed then they simply won't happen.
At any rate, from what I understand this is an issue created by a renaming of the gnome-control-center, which makes this very much an issue of GNOME and not the KDE workspace. From a KDE POV nothing changed, except that another source distributor decided it would be a good idea to use a well established and long standing name for their product without taking into account the resulting problems for the eco system at large. So as an upstream developer I see no reason for action on the KDE side of things but rather on the GNOME side. FWIW the onlyshowin: kde option is fundamentally wrong because, as you already pointed out, it would remove all ability to configure KDE technology wide settings in a shell (you could run unity in an KDE software environment) that is not a KDE one. Now the reason this works for GNOME is because their entries are regular desktop files in the applications folder, thus listed in the menu. So even without gnome- control-center you could access the configuration apps for example via the Plasma start menu. KCMs on the other hand are in a KDE own folder and thus require systemsettings to be present. Renaming System Settings to have some sort of prefix because GNOME wants to claim this name is, I hope, obviously wrong on so incredibly many levels that I'd not even want to start think about discussing that upstream, downstream, or sidestream. Anyhow, this is not an issue limited to Kubuntu, so as per our bug triage policy [1] it needs to be tacked and addressed upstream. Also since the established importance is low there is no reason for tracking it here. [1] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Specs/LucidBugTriagePolicy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/735166 Title: Duplicate System Settings & System Monitor in Gnome/Unity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/735166/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
