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