On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:24:09 -0800 (PST) Darrell Anderson humanreadable@yahoo.com wrote:
My point in saying all this is not that these things
shouldn't be added to kcontrol, it's
that they can't be said to be "missing" from 3.5.13
because they weren't actually part
of 3.5.10 in the first place (and that we have to be
careful, in the first two cases, that
we don't accidentally duplicate something).
Slackware is well known for modifying upstream sources as little as possible. With respect to KDE3, Slackware provided those packages as provided from the upstream KDE repositories.
With that said, the Samba options discussed are part of the Slackware 3.5.10. Therefore I presume those options were part of the upstream KDE repository. If those options are not available in a particular distro's 3.5.10, then I presume the options were stripped from the upstream KDE sources.
The patches applied by Gentoo to the stock 3.5.10 are in plain view ( kdebase-3.5-patchset-13.tar.bz2 should still be retrievable from the file repositories); none of the four kcontrol patches appears to strip a panel. I am now 99% certain that this panel is supplied by smb4k, rather than kcontrol itself.