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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 15:44:24 -0600
> 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