On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:04:04PM +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>
> Subject: Re: kpowersave - scheme settings
> Date: Wednesday 18 January 2006 00:14
> From: Ferdinand Gassauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Danny Kukawka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:21, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:15, Ferdinand Gassauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > > KDE tries to use (mostly) positive questions.
> > >
> > > kpowersave has a mixture of enable/disable questions. disable IMHO
> > > should be changed to "enable" and get checked when appropriate.
> > > may be you want to rethink the design.
> >
> > Hmm, .... The only checkboxes we IMO could change are the scheme specific
> > sound settings.
> >
> > In the other cases ("Disable screen saver", "Disable display power
> > management") I see no way to change this, because we *need* here the
> > 'Disable'-checkbox because we must overwrite the KDE/X settings you can
> > make in KControl or in the KScreensaver settings. IMO in this context a
> > 'enable' checkbox make no sense.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> (Y) is checked
> (N) is unchecked
>
> It says
> * (Y) Enable specific screensaver settings
> ** (N) Disable screensaver
> .
> ** (N) Disable Powersettings
>
> IMHO the result is the same but would be easier to read
>
> * (Y) Enable specific screensaver settings
> ** (Y) Enable screensaver
> .
> ** (Y) Enable Powersettings
>
> I just think it's easier for the user to deal only with "enable"
The problem is that you cannot enable it from here if you disabled it in the
control center. There really is just the option to "disable" it if it was
enabled in kcontrol, or leave it disabled if it was disabled in kcontrol.
We do not provide the option to enable it if it was disabled in kcontrol.
I hope this makes it more clear why we do it this way.
One fine day, we will get a kcontrol module that will integrate all that
nicely, but we still have some way to go until world domination ;-)
Have a lot of fun!
Stefan
--
Stefan Seyfried \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices \ wanted to be paid for what I write."
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg \ -- Leonard Cohen
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