[Openicc] KDE CMS

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 29.01.08, 14:04 +0100 schrieb Cyrille Berger:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, you wrote:
> > The upside is KDE would get flexible dialogs.
> > After all, I a bit surprised to imagine a configuration system like
> > kcontrol and no abstraction from widgets. Or does the automation happen
> > inside the moc files?
> >
> > The problem is like with some fancy modules. The user shall set something
> > in a dialog for it, options for various screensavers.
> > As this option is not always usefull it is provided by API.
> > Now I would hope the kcontrol GUI to display that stuff, of course
> > with some name or a small logo to understand where it comes from.
> We are getting a little bit off-topic for this list, but well :) 

We are well on KDE CMS / Oyranos issues.

> > But probably there are very static parts like the Oyranos policies, which
> > might get a kcontrol page. It is just a choice.
> > The lots of other settings can be placed into a own dialog window or an
> > external (Qt?) app?
> 
> The goal in KDE4 is to make SystemSettings (the replacement of KControl) the 
> *central* place for settings of your computer, and not limited to KDE 
> settings. That means, that in the future, distribution settings will be 
> available in SystemSettings, that's more or less a merge of KDE3's KControl 
> with YaST, Guidance or whatever your distribution use. In short, for ICC 
> settings, that mean all settings should be available through system settings.

What about the screensaver case? The panel shows common tasks inside 
the window. That would be fairly well meet the Oyranos policy selection 
widget. It's a text choice.
Other things can then appear in a different window after button press. We 
just had to figure out how this widget comes into existence - by a system 
call or whatever.

Of course the CMS settings can be an icon in SystemSettings only and come 
up in a own dialog window.
As long as we talk about the UI part, I am still not aware of a problem as 
long as Oyranos can decide about the inner logic, like widget grouping.

I'd guess books are best to reprint in the original order of their 
sections with very few exceptions.


Hope this makes sense,
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org