7 Feb
2012
7 Feb
'12
1:09 a.m.
I did some preliminary experimenting.
Some of the changes require only modifying the Categories key in the respective desktop
files. Some changes require carefully replacing "KDE" with "TDE" in
the respective *.desktop file.
With such nominal changes I was able to perform the following:
* Rename KDE Components to TDE Components.
* Move Desktop/Multiple Desktops to TDE Components.
* Rename KDE Performance to TDE Performance.
* Rename KDE Resources to TDE Resources.
* Move the remaining Desktop category items to Appearance & Themes.
* Move Peripherals/Monitor and Display to System Administration.
* Move Peripherals/ICC Color Profile to System Administration.
* Move Power Control/Laptop Battery to Peripherals/Laptop Battery.
* Move the old KInfoCenter items to a new catagory named System Information.
As proof of concept, I split Sound & Multimedia into two categories: 1) Sound and 2)
Multimedia. Sound contains Sound System, System Bell, and System Notifications. Multimedia
contains Audio CDs and CDDB Retrieval. I did not tinker with translations.
I also renamed Appearance & Themes to Appearance and Peripherals to Hardware. Yet
again I did not tinker with translations.
These nominal changes improved the KControl layout.
I did not change source files and rebuild packages. I fiddled directly with the related
filed in a virtual machine.
A note if you tinker directly with the desktop files in an installed Trinity desktop:
delete the $TDEHOME/cache-$HOSTNAME/ksycoca files and restart each session anew. Otherwise
the cache will not show any changes.
Darrell