5 Feb
2012
5 Feb
'12
7:21 p.m.
On 5 February 2012 04:57, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin(a)kde.org> wrote:
*sigh* You don't have to "do
better than KDE4". If you do better, please
upstream your changes. Please realize that you are not in competition with
KDE.
Well said.
Calvin Morrison
On Sunday 05 February 2012 03:08:36 Timothy Pearson
wrote:
Sorry it was indeed 4.8. Which is quite nice by the way :) looking through
KDE4 was just as much of a pain as Trinity. In comparison XFCE and GNOME
offer less configuration so I had less of an issue there.
> Hi.
>
> I'd like to undergo an effort to cleanup and reorganize all of our kcm
> modules. Over time there have been features added which are placed in
the
> wrong section, other times things have been
done inefficiently or made
to
> be overly complicated.
>
> I think an "audit" of our modules would be good, from a user
perspective.
> This weekend I tried KDE4.0 and like Trinity
it is plagued with this
same
> confusion. I hadn't noticed it in
trinity because I am so used to it,
> growing used to it over time. Trying to configure kde4.0 left me with
> confusion most users will feel with KDE3/Trinity. Our control system
isn't
> laid out very effectively.
May I ask
why you tried KDE 4.0? Why don't you go with 4.8? Somewhen in the
past the systemsettings maintainers spent a lot of time in improving the
layout. I am sure you could benefit from this work and not try to audit it
again. It's just an idea to save you some time.
>
> I am going to open an etherpad for this. I would also like any
> users/developers to respond to this email with anything they find to be
> weird/out of place.
>
> I'll start: the Kicker configure screen, underneath appearance has an
> "advanced options" button. There is nothing advanced about these
options
and it
should be more clearly organized.
Lets try and sort this out!
Calvin Morrison
Sounds like a good project. This is another area that we should be able
to do better than KDE4 in theory; Windows$ has always (in versions up to
XP) outdone Linux in this area as well.