Hi, as we discuss this already a long time now I think we should start from scratch with a complete new idea. cause if our ideas in the past would be good, we had finalized it.
I'd like to discuss it in the VDG IRC / Telegram channel and add the results to https://notes.kde.org/p/SystemSettings thanks Andreas Am 17.10.2016 18:48 schrieb "Jonathan Riddell" <j...@jriddell.org>: > We had a discussion on System Settings at the meeting today which > merited its own thread: > > * system settings direction and improvements (alex-l, ...) > <alex-l_> the most complained part for me is System Settings: > newbies don't like it > <d_ed> I like some of what Andreas is doing > <d_ed> the lots of papercuts > <alex-l_> Note on SySe: Daniel Foré from Elementary OS had the > idea to introduce a cross-DE URI scheme to let apps open precise > system settings module. If SySe will adopt it, its complexity would be > reduced and users would be able to find easily the settings related to > the app they are using. As always the question is: there would be the > manpower to implement it? > <Sho_> but the problem is that the "let's fix system settings" > attempts i see are always vague and high-level and end up being a > rearrangement of marbles, instead of purpose-directed. for example, > here's a real thing we need to fix in settings: the keyboard layout > kcm needs to become an input languages kcm, so people can set up an > IME in there easily to actually be able to type their lang. that's > something we suck at that Gnome/Windows/Mac do well. but instead it's > "maybe we > mgraesslin thinks that part of the problem is that we constantly > move things around because we think we finally found the ultimate > solution > > Go ahead and discuss... >
