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There are complaints about the organization of system settings. The problem is partially that different people have different ideas where things should go. I think the best solution to this is to have the same modules in multiple places. That would make it so that users don't have to conform to the idea of the developers as much and there doesn't have to be as much fighting about how things should be organized.

Here are a few examples, some taken from where I think thing should be placed and others from ideas I think other people might plausibly have:

1. Put the date and time format in both the "regional and language" and the "date and time" sections (it is currently only in the former). When I want to set the date and time format, the first thing I think is to look in the section labeled "date and time" but it is not there. However, it is a regional thing so I think it also belongs there.

2. People could plausibly look for control of the system bell and system notifications in the "multimedia" section.

3. "Desktop effects" and "screen saver" both affect the appearance of the system, so my first inclination is always to look for them there. But they also affect the desktop. Conversely, it would not be at all unreasonable to look for the "styles", "colors", and "windows" modules from the "appearance" section in the "window behavior" section (which could be renamed just "window").

For me the answer is easy: no

Every module should have its own single place, no matter what happens. Does it mean you have to learn something about your DE? Sure, it works this way, in every single OS i remember

You want a coherent DE? You MUST keep this rule up, otherwise common people may get confused after reaching the same config window from different places. They may ask:
is it the same? haven't i got to this config just a few clicks ago? this "multiplicity" is not really a bug?

Regards

I vote up, but i think it is better to have shortcuts to point user to right direction. Shortcuts would avoid duplication, but it also allows to find things easier

In multimedia section

May be you'd like to...
... change system notifications ?
... set the system bell ?