Hello, Why not use Gnome System Settings and KDE System Settings instead? So this can be visible in both environments, and the user will know what he needs to change. Internally I believe both can keep System Settings.
Using Gnome/KDE System Settings the user will know which one he want's to use. Regards, Arx Cruz On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Sergey Udaltsov <[email protected]>wrote: > > This is what happens when you mix and match bits and pieces from > > different operating systems. There is really not much that can be done > > about it. Since that is what both KDE and GNOME are trying to do: > > build complete, self-contained systems. > So far we are running the same OS (for most of us it is Linux, but it > can be Solaris or *BSD). DE != OS. And the system can be multiuser - > which sometimes means both KDE and GNOME can be present in the same > installation. Also, some, especially semi-professional apps are not > going to be duplicated in both environments (I am not talking about > text editors or calculators) - so there are relatively high chances > that the user would need both sets of settings, for KDE and GNOME (in > that sense having ShowOnlyIn can be a bad idea - some "foreign" apps > would become not configurable). > > The best idea really would be to define the mechanism of feeding the > settings into "foreign" apps. Both directions, GNOME (desktop) ->KDE > (apps) and KDE (desktop) -> GNOME (apps). If we have that, in addition > to ShowOnlyIn, user could never notice that the system has two > variants of "System Settings". The only problem with that approach is > that some settings can be defined only in one DE. In that case, sane > default values could be the only choice.. > > Sergey > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
