Tirsdag den 2. november 2010 18:13:22 skrev Matt Williams:
2010/11/2 Karsten König
: Am Dienstag, 2. November 2010, 16:42:17 schrieb todd rme:
This may be a question you get a lot, but why is System Settings renamed to Personal Settings in openSUSE?
Besides having the obvious issue of it being a break with upstream, and the fact that the application name (Personal Settings) does not match the executable name (systemsettings), it causes a lot of problems when trying to help people with KDE. On the KDE forums in particular, if you don't know what distribution the person is using you don't know what program you should tell them to use to change their settings. For someone not familiar with the issue it can be much worse, there are a number of cases of people going back and forth trying to solve a problem, sometimes for days, only to find out that the problem is that openSUSE calls a central component of KDE something entirely different than everyone else.
Although you could argue that Personal Settings is a more appropriate name (although I don't think that is the case anymore), and the change may seem fairly minor, but it has led to some difficulty and quite a bit of confusion. So I think this naming should be reconsidered. In general I think renaming core parts of KDE is a bad idea, it can't help but lead to confusion amongst users.
-Todd
we consider yast to be the 'system' settings tool, in comparison to the modifications from kde systemsettings which are in most cases only for a single user. It's not optimal yeah =/
Has this change been pushed or even suggested to the upstream?
I think it would make more sense changing it upstream too. Systemsettings is a pretty bad name for something that is 95% user settings. I vote to call it KControl again :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org