On 7 February 2012 05:20, Pawel Soltsy <sh4dou@...> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Darrell Anderson > <humanreadable@...> wrote: >> I did some preliminary experimenting. >> >> Some of the changes require only modifying the Categories key in the respective desktop files. Some changes require carefully replacing "KDE" with "TDE" in the respective *.desktop file. >> >> With such nominal changes I was able to perform the following: >> >> * Rename KDE Components to TDE Components. >> * Move Desktop/Multiple Desktops to TDE Components. >> * Rename KDE Performance to TDE Performance. >> * Rename KDE Resources to TDE Resources. >> * Move the remaining Desktop category items to Appearance & Themes. >> * Move Peripherals/Monitor and Display to System Administration. >> * Move Peripherals/ICC Color Profile to System Administration. >> * Move Power Control/Laptop Battery to Peripherals/Laptop Battery. >> * Move the old KInfoCenter items to a new catagory named System Information. >> >> As proof of concept, I split Sound & Multimedia into two categories: 1) Sound and 2) Multimedia. Sound contains Sound System, System Bell, and System Notifications. Multimedia contains Audio CDs and CDDB Retrieval. I did not tinker with translations. >> > IMHO this should not be split. Creating new category just for 2-3 > items is a bit overkill for me. It causes too much segmentation. > > >> I also renamed Appearance & Themes to Appearance and Peripherals to Hardware. Yet again I did not tinker with translations. >> >> These nominal changes improved the KControl layout. >> >> I did not change source files and rebuild packages. I fiddled directly with the related filed in a virtual machine. >> >> A note if you tinker directly with the desktop files in an installed Trinity desktop: delete the $TDEHOME/cache-$HOSTNAME/ksycoca files and restart each session anew. Otherwise the cache will not show any changes. >> >> Darrell >> > > Another thing that should be done is to remove redundant configuration > methods. Take the monitor settings. Actually there are 3 ways to > configure your screen (2 in kcontrol + kranrdr in tray), yet I wasn't > able to configure my screens like I wanted to. I used xrandr form my > terminal to do that. The 'Display' and 'Monitor and Display' options > should be merged (both are in 'Peripherals' category. Next thing is > that 'Monitor and Display' on my system requires root password/access > to allow me to configure anything. Yet if I use xrandr directly I > don't need it. This is a flaw for me. As last thing would be to add > possibility to display icon in the systray if user wants it, that > allow quick access/change of resolution (just like we have atm) but is > not an external application. > I have started an etherpad. Please organize new ideas into those categories provided, or create a new category. Anything that doesn't fit please put below. Also please respond with AGREE/DISAGREE/MODIFY and why in a sub bullet http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/40 Thanks! Calvin Morrison