On 02/15/2012 08:24 AM, E. Liddell wrote: > > In my copy of 3.5.10, some of these options are under Appearance and Themes > > Background > Advanced Options, so this may be part of an openSUSE-peculiar > patch. Since this is about the text captions for desktop icons, the settings > may belong with the Appearance and Themes > Icons items, perhaps on > a "Text Labels" tab, rather then being a second-level item in their own right. > Looking at the Desktop Texts and the Advanced Options of Background, the Desktop Texts applets adds control of the shadow effect opacity, offset and decay factors that I don't find anywhere else in kcontrol. It would be nice if this could be merged with some other applet. It is kind of a weird stand-alone entry under Appearance, but it does offer control that I can't find elsewhere. > > Not present in my 3.5.10, nor does my 3.5.13 have any controls related to samba. > I seem to recall that smb4k, which I no longer use, installs a samba applet rather > than it being part of the stock kcontrol. > I think you are probably right on this. I'll check further. >> Lastly, the Sound & Multimedia/Music Manager applet that is not in 3.5.13 is >> shown here. <snip> >> >> http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/kcontrol-SoundMM_MusicManager.jpg > > Also not present in my 3.5.10. To what applications do its settings actually apply? > I believe this was added to Digikam -> Import -> Camera (download settings). There was a bug against Digikam regarding only downloading with the ALL CAPS extensions. This seems to provide the same extension naming control as was added to Digikam to resolve that bug. I don't know if this is even needed any more or what it applies to. If anyone knows, please chime in. > My point in saying all this is not that these things shouldn't be added to kcontrol, it's > that they can't be said to be "missing" from 3.5.13 because they weren't actually part > of 3.5.10 in the first place (and that we have to be careful, in the first two cases, that > we don't accidentally duplicate something). > Agreed, That was the point of the review and screenshots. I am no kconrol historian or expert, but if we are going though kcontrol to see if naming and layout can be improved, I want to make sure we don't have applets slip through the cracks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
