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Re: couple of gripes
by Robert Knight on Thursday 26/Oct/2006, @14:55

Regarding 1), these balancing acts are not easy. The classic KDE approach of making everything configurable in a huge settings dialog is, in my opinion, definitely not the way forwards. It becomes a warren in which more important settings ( ie. those settings which a larger proportion of the target users are likely to want to change ) are hard to find and the settings dialogs become hard to test properly.
I like what the Kubuntu folks are trying to do with System Settings, it isn't surprising that they didn't get it absolutely right first time.

Regarding 2), I think a good compromise would be to separate out the "home" and "media" folders from the others in the folder view rather than hiding them entirely.

By the way - please file bug reports or post feedback on the wiki for both the above if you haven't done so already.

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Re: couple of gripes
by borker on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @06:41

Yup, I agree it is a balancing act, but KDE's functionality is one of the fundamental reasons I use it instead of other DEs, so I think for distros to go around removing that which makes KDE the better option for some of us is doing it a disservice. As I said I have no issues with improving the access to functionality... the basic/advanced split in systems settings is an example of that, I just don't want to lose functionality or have to start digging for it in conf files all the time.

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