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Currently the service manager configuration allows you to enable or disable daemons, programs that run in the background. But it only allows you to control dameons used by KDE. I think expanding it to let you configure all deamons, including which runlevel they load at, would be very useful.

Have a look at Pardus - you can comfortably control systemservices both in systemsettings and with a plasmoid. It's implemented in Python, but I fear pretty distro-specific.

Hi Cat,

In this and your next two posts I feel you are asking that linux system administration be integrated into KDE.

I love the idea and have for a long time... I think many have. But there are some significant reasons why it has not happenned, or at least why it remains difficult:

1. Linux is but one target platform for KDE
2. Each distro tends to do sysadmin its own unique way

Note that you can't manage user accounts or installed software packages etc from the default KDE system settings panels (e.g https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/366062). These are considered the packagers responsibility. I'm not sure this is a good arrangement.

Looking at http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/SystemSettings would be a good starting point for anyone who might be able to help with code. But keep in mind there will be lots of "issues". This is all harder than it sounds.