As of right
now I don't think it does anything. It is sitting in the tree
for legacy reasons, and will continue to do so in case we decide to have
two "views" to access kcontrol modules from.
What if that display view was added to Kcontol, so it had the
capability to display in 2 different styles (much like microsoft XP's
two styles for control panel), and remove systemsettings altogether?
Just an idea
Are you volunteering? :-)
The KDE4 system settings (nee kcontrol) has the option to display both the classic mode
and icon view mode.
From what I have seen thus far in tde-systemsettings, everything is duplicated from
kcontrol except the view mode. Possibly there is an extra module or two (I have to look
again). If we migrated the icon view mode to kcontrol then likely we could remove
tde-systemsettings from the source tree.
Another option is grabbing the top-level *.desktop file from tde-systemsettings and use
that to launch kcontrol. KDE3 works that way. That is, tde-systemsettings adds a
"System Settings" menu option at the top level of the TDE menu. Similar to the
"Settings" menu that displays all the kcontrol modules but with no submenu. KDE3
added "Control Center" to the top level menu. Actually, I sort of miss that KDE3
method when using Trinity. Perhaps a long time ago in a galaxy far away I manually added
"Control Center" to the top level....
Darrell