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KDE provides a very nice system settings panel. However it doesn't provide tools for everything and it is common for distros to bundle at least one additional control-panel-type-thing for system configuration.

It would be less confusing if there was one control center but this would require distros to re-implement their configuration tools in KDE (and potentially each DE they support, a big duplication of effort) or only support one DE (a crime). The path forward is difficult to see.

One possible solution is to remove systems settings and replace it with a set of tools (this is all spoken from a user perspective as I'm not familiar with the actual implementation of system settings in KDE). Perhaps one separate tool for each major category within the current system settings, perhaps some other - that is not so critical.

The point is that, instead of providing a control panel that is a KDE application, a set of tools is provided instead. These can then be integrated with other tools, as required by the distro compiler, via the desktop menu, or via some file browser interface (settings://) etc.

And certainly KDE settings should be accessible from different contexts also (right click on desktop, default applications and file associations from dolphin etc).

I think eliminating system settings eliminates a great feature of KDE. Having all of your configuration options in one place instead of scattered all over your system seems like a much better way of doing things. Further, many system settings modules already are stand-alone tools as well.

You're in a negative mood cat

For your average distro, all of the configuration panels are *not* in one place at the moment - that's the point. And they can't easily be put in one place because they won't all be written using KDE.

However they could all be grouped via the desktop menu (for example) if they were separated from the system settings program.

Anyhow, its just a suggestion.

When I want to change my kwin settings, i don't open System Settings, i just right-click on titlebar and chose "Configure Window Behavior...".
When I want to change my desktop, I right-click on my desktop ...
When I want to change kmenu style/type, I right-click on menu icon.
When I want to change some plasmoid params, I don't open System Settings.
So should it be with network (via some mn-plasmoid/applet), sound (via kmix), date/time (via some clock plasmoid) etc ...

At least half of staff in System Settings should be dropd out.

Sorry for my bad English

What about us people who use distros that don't provide any configuration tools? For me, systemsettings is the only configuration tool.

This is already implemented. You can launch any system settings module on its own using kcmshell or kcmshell4. If distros want to place each module separately in the application launcher menu or whatever, they can do that easily enough by making a .desktop file for each one. If the distros don't want people using systemsettings, they can just not provide a launcher for it or maybe even cut it out entirely.