Re: The new KControl

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On Saturday 28 February 2004 14:19, Gary L Greene Jr wrote:
> My graphics Design buddy (Jameth Knorth) has on the usability list been
> contributing to the design of this new kcontrol. While it fixes the actual
> kcontrol app, it still does not address the fact that large portions of the
> current modules are unintuitive and really do need the usability team to
> scrutinize them for poor presentation and layout of items in the page.
The problem with that (I also worked on KControl long ago), is that *keep this 
quiet* most of the KControl Modules are unmantained... most of the developers 
that developer it originally aren't even answering e-mails and they didn't 
use Designer (and there are current developers that refuse to use Designer) 
so, it's hard to update them (if all of them where done in Designer, I could 
fix most of the problems in one hour or two ;)
The other problem is that there weren't very good rules a the begining (are 
they now ?) so, KCMs are a jungle.

> Unfortunately, one of the main issues I have with the recent push for
> usability is the idea of removing system administration from kcontrol and
> move it to a new ksyscontrol app.
I disagree here... making another application doesn't make much sense, but it 
would be nice to be able to run KControl in diferent modes, sysadmin, 
netadmin or something like that, to show diferent sets of configurations and 
KControll all where everything is show, that would 'kick ass'.
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