On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:13:57 +0200 Kevin Krammer <kevin.kram...@gmx.at> 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 > And on those points, why does openSUSE have to go in and make changes to the behavior and menus of kcontrol/systemsettings? Very frustrating! Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSuSE 11.3 x86_64 openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 KDE 4.4.4, FF 3.6.8 KDE 4.6.00, FF 4.0 Beta claws-mail 3.7.8 claws-mail 3.7.8 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net ___________________________________________________ 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.
