Trever: I had suspected that might have been the case, and I agree with your reasoning in that regard. Keeping things sane certainly trumps one slightly vague string - the more so because the name doesn't obstruct the user, but does at least raise a flag of something being out of place, regardless of whether they fully understand it or not.
Thanks for the background information. I retract my proposition. Regards, - Jeffery MacEachern On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 01:23, Trever Fischer <tdfisc...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > 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 << > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
