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Re-organize the system settings menu

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tom0485
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Re-organize the system settings menu

Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:14 am
The system settings menu could use some restructuring. You can see a first draft of how it could look. The idea behind it is that it should be oriented at the needs of the users and their problems, not at the programs that run under the surface.
Examples:
why is "Regional & Language" personal, "Date&Time" not?
why is the configuration of the printer "General", the configuration of a digital camera "Advanced"?
why is it "General" to choose which audio backend you want to use but not which energy settings you prefer?


[img]http://home.arcor.de/tom_walter/kde-system-settings.png[/img]

In this example, "Sharing" should also include the basic samba settings, "Autostart" should also include the "Device Actions" and the "Login Manager" somehow belongs together with the "Session Manager"
"Font Installer" should become obsolete with one of the next versions of KPakageKit
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TheBlackCat
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Re-organize the system settings menu

Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:21 am
This is already being worked on. Please see this thread Configuration modules disposition under System Settings (survey)


Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
-NASA in 1965


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