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Re: Systemsettings
by Erunno on Thursday 05/Jul/2007, @10:03
Someone over at the ubuntuforums.org raised some good points where System Settings is inferior to KControl Since I generally agree I'll just paste them here:

1) KControl displays widgets much better in any screen size. System settings responds to a smaller screen size by always adding scrollbars, instead of resizing the widgets. (see Screenshot #1 style.png). This even happens on my relatively large 1280x800 display, so it certainly isn't good on even smaller displays.(see screenshot #2 size.png).

2) KControl has a much more intuitive way of managing oversized modules. It places the module within a scroll bar, but places the Apply/Cancel buttons outside, ensuring that they are always available. This is much smarter than system settings, which scrolls everything including the buttons(see screenshot #3 search.png).

3) While System Settings has a decent search function, which tells you which categories the results are in, the Kcontrol one is a lot better. It allows you to load several modules to see which result you want, while keeping the search results active. While system settings can do this, you need to go back and forth to achieve the same result.
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Re: Systemsettings
by ac6 on Friday 06/Jul/2007, @02:28
Yep, and systemsettings isn't controllable by keyboard (you need the mouse).

But I think (hope) that now it is in the KDE svn those issues will be solved because usually KDE software is of very high quality also in regard to keyboard control (unlike unfortunately the software added to kubuntu which is not in default KDE).
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  • Re: Systemsettings
    by jospoortvliet on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @07:44
    Actually, the keyboard issue is already solved, and work is going on on the size-thingy.

    The search interface might improve as well, though the way Kcontrol vs systemsettings are makes it impossible (I think) to really do it the Kcontrol way.
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