Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Friday, 2011-04-15, Dale wrote: > > >> The reason is this, kcontrol lets a person know it is a KDE thing and >> not a system thing. For most long term Linux users, system means that >> it is global. As a example, if I make a change in xorg.conf, it is a >> system wide change. Any change there will affect ALL users. Same could >> be said for lots of other files. That just happened to be a GUI one. >> >> If you use systemsetting, AKA Kcontrol, to change a setting, it only >> affects the one user and has nothing to do with others or the system >> itself. The only exception to that I can think of would be the section >> concerning the login and splash screen but that is actually a kdm >> setting and you have to be root to change it. When you have to type in >> root to get access, it is usually a system setting of some sort. >> >> The point Duncan and Alex is making is that the name is misleading. It >> really doesn't change any "system" settings at all, just user settings. >> >> I have to agree with Duncan and Alex. It is confusing and I really >> don't see any reason why it should have been changed to begin with. The >> old name worked fine and was more accurate. That said, it's not like >> KDE hasn't made bad decisions before Don't get us started on the >> dropping KDE3 before KDE4 was ready, some would argue KDE4 still isn't >> ready. Anyway, I better stop there before we get this ball rolling again. >> >> On the other hand, I wish it was something besides a K in the front >> sometimes. There are a lot of kernel processes that start with k as >> well. I guess because kernel starts with a k. :/ >> > It has to be called something. KControl is not that accurate either because it > can contain setting modules for non KDE settings (as you have already > mentioned yourself). > > Maybe settings manager or settings center. > > Cheers, > Kevin > >
But the part that affects more than one user is part of KDE. That part is kdm which is a KDE program. I can't think of anything else it changes and as far as I know, it is all KDE related. I never said kcontrol is right, just that it is more accurate. The names you mention are fine, just stick a k on front of it, but it should be more clear that it is a KDE program and not something that is going to change things not even related to KDE. Dale :-) :-) ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
