On Friday, December 31, 2010 04:15:16 am Jeffery MacEachern wrote: > I noticed some time ago that System Settings places KCMs without valid > values of X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category under the heading > "Lost and Found". While I understand the intent and significance > behind this, I question the usefulness of referring to it as such; to > the average end user, "Lost and Found" is arguably a meaningless term, > since the mechanisms by which the KCMs would be "found" normally (or > even the fact that they /are/) aren't something the user should care > about. > I'm not certain what I would propose as an alternative, but I wanted > to raise the issue. For example, changing it to a more innocuous > "Miscellaneous" could play down the fact that its placement in that > category is due to an error, instead seeming to be a catch-all > category - which is probably undesirable. This is admittedly a minor > issue, but it has been nagging at the back of my brain for a while. > Does anyone else care about this? -_^ We do not want to downplay the fact that some developer didn't put their .desktop file into the right category. The whole reason we switched from the previous structure was because people would just use the 'advanced' or 'misc' sections as a dumping ground and eventually *everything* started looking like an 'advanced' feature.
After the last systemsettings shuffle, lets wait at least a few years before we start talking about modifying things again. > > Cheers, > - Jeffery MacEachern > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > >> unsubscribe << >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
