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Kcontrol Module?
by Pablo Liska on Friday 03/May/2002, @12:43

This would make for a nice kcontrol module, if anyone is looking for something to work on.

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Re: Kcontrol Module?
by tzanger on Friday 03/May/2002, @14:04

AMEN I totally agree!
I would also suggest being able have the ability to manually enter port numbers (with a description) for those wacky protocols that 0.5% of people use but since the firewall doesn't have it listed they can't configure.

A KControl module and having everything exposed via DCOP would absolutely rule.

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Re: Kcontrol Module?
by Carsten Pfeiffer on Saturday 04/May/2002, @06:20

> I would also suggest being able have the ability to manually enter port
> numbers (with a description) for those wacky protocols that 0.5% of people
> use but since the firewall doesn't have it listed they can't configure.

What about trying it out? This is possible already.

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Re: Kcontrol Module?
by fault on Sunday 05/May/2002, @15:08

ugh, please don't complicate kcontrol even more. It's been far too cluttered for far too long.

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Re: Kcontrol Module?
by Pablo Liska on Monday 06/May/2002, @12:51

You mean too functional?

As far as I see it: better to consolidate/organize functions in one place than have hundreds of "uncluttered" programs/files/places that only do one thing.

It would be great if kcontrol did what control panel does in windows, but organized things a bit better, thanks to kparts. Windows 2000 server has this extra section called "computer management" that is like kcontrol (but with less stuff in it and therefore somewhat harder to find and creating more "clutter" -- lots of icons in the admin section of control panel). "Computer Management" includes interfaces for the logical volume manager, the firewal configurator (which btw has a bunch of user-friendly wizards and also allows fine-grained control), user management, etc.

Maybe we should have two kcontrols? one for basic stuff and one for things like this? I think its better to have it in one "place" (not really one place since its just kparts pulling in other progs -- as far as i understand) and just organize things well.

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Re: Kcontrol Module?
by Michael on Tuesday 07/May/2002, @09:19

> I think its better to have it in one "place" (not really one place since its
> just kparts pulling in other progs -- as far as i understand) and just organize > things well.

Yeah, but it's not better that you decide where we want things.
It's better if we can configure something to put arbitrary things in one place, or not, as we see fit.

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