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Re: [trinity-devel] Additional kcontrol applets from 3.5.12 - not in current 3.5.13

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:04:21 -0600
> On 16 February 2012 16:44, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...>
> wrote:
>>> On 16 February 2012 16:37, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>   Reviewing my current Trinity 3.5.12 desktop at work,
>>>>> I have found a number of additional useful kcontrol applets
>>>>> that are not in the current 3.5.13. I'm not saying they are
>>>>> needed, but for discussion, here they are. Basically a diff
>>>>> of the entries is:
>>>>>
>>>>> (in 3.5.12 Archlinux - Albert Vaca build)
>>>>>
>>>>> Appearance & Themes
>>>>>   KSM Theme Manager
>>>>>
>>>>> Internet & Network
>>>>>   Local Network Chat
>>>>>   Network Interfaces
>>>>>   Protocols
>>>>>   Samba
>>>>>   Wireless Network
>>>>>   Zeroconf Service Discovery
>>>>>
>>>>> Peripherals
>>>>>   CD-ROM Information
>>>>>   Devices
>>>>>   DMA-Channels
>>>>>   ICC Color Profile
>>>>>   Interrupts
>>>>>   IO-Ports
>>>>>   Partitions
>>>>>   PCI
>>>>>   Processors
>>>>>   SCSI
>>>>>   Sound
>>>>>   USB Devices
>>>>>   X-Server
>>>>>
>>>>> Power Control
>>>>>   Laptop Battery
>>>>>
>>>>>   Many of these hold very useful information from /proc
>>>>> and /etc in a tabular layout (eg: Peripherals/Partitions). I
>>>>> don't know if these are/were standard of some distro
>>>>> specific addons, but they were most likely not arch
>>>>> additions. I have updated the side-by-side comparison to
>>>>> include this layout. The side-by-side now has kcontrol
>>>>> layouts for:
>>>>
>>>> I don't know how your packages were built. All but the theme manager
>>>> are
>>>> standard in 3.5.13 and GIT, at least with my Slackware builds. I'm not
>>>> patching anything to obtain those modules.
>>>>
>>>> Darrell
>>>>
>>>
>>> So basically there is a patch to enable theming of the ksmserver
>>> dialog... from who knows where. Pawel showed me a few weeks ago.
>>>
>>> my vote is to not enable it, it's just more bloat.
>>>
>>> Calvin
>>>
>>
>> Which ksmserver dialog are you referring to?  There are several.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
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> shutdown dialog afaik.  the patch
>
> http://gitorious.org/kdemod3/kdemod3/blobs/master/kdebase/20-ksmserver_theme_support.patch

Looks like.  It also seems that this would not be something we would want,
as it applies a different theme than what the user's desktop is using.

Tim