Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (96 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tirsdag den 2. november 2010 18:13:22 skrev Matt Williams:
> 2010/11/2 Karsten König <remur@xxxxxxx>:
> > 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 :-)

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