On Sunday, 2011-07-24, Duncan wrote: > One thing that was pointed out on the thread (by a gnome guy, AFAIK, but > I believe he was right) is that kde-anything (and by extension k- > anything) rather short-circuits the big kde software collection or > whatever it is they call it (kde-sc, but I never remember what the "c" > is, collection, collaboration, some such) rebranding, where kde doesn't > stand for K desktop environment any longer (I've read that the K was for > Kool at one point, but that predates me), but rather, the project behind > it, with the "software collection" or whatever it is being the primary > common output of the project. I don't think that's related. Getting rid of the k-something notation predates the clarification of product names and not matter which of the products a program created by KDE belongs to it is a KDE program. > Another argument that I believe I've seen is that some distributions > wanted to include their own kcms (kcontrol modules, BTW, and last I > checked, /that/ bit hadn't changed) for (real) system settings. > > But that doesn't hold water here because (1), that's not what kde ships, > nor does it really make a lot of sense for kde to try to ship distro- > specific system tools, so (2) distros can and some actually are or were > with 3.x already renaming it, as part of their customizations, and that's > hardly a reason in itself to change upstream kde, when it's not system > settings as they ship it. It is less a matter of shipping system level configuration modules as part of a KDE product release (though there are some that can suitably implemented across distributions/platforms), but more about providing the infrastructure for integration of distribution/platform specific tools. The general idea was that users would have a central point of access for changing settings, similar to what known proprietary platforms have. Unfortunately but understandably differentiation needs between vendors makes providing distinctly recognizable system configuration tools a higher priority than integration. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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