In KDE4 they have changed the KControlCenter and named it System Settings.
I found it to be easy to navigate and very intuitive.
Lets start the visual review.
The start page looks very similar to KControl of KDE3.
Lets start with Look and Feel section.
Second Section is the personal Settings
Going over to Network and Connectivity Section
These are normal settings. The Settings manager considers some more settings are part of Advanced Settings
I liked the new and crisp interface, please do share with me how you liked this screenshot tour.
I found it to be easy to navigate and very intuitive.
Lets start the visual review.
The start page looks very similar to KControl of KDE3.
Lets start with Look and Feel section.
- Appearance :: Configure Theme, Colors, Style
- Desktop: Configure Cool desktop Effects and Screen Saver
- Notification : System Notifications and Bell
- Splash Screen
- Window Behavior : Titlebar Actions, Windows Actions, Focus, Moving Actions etc.
Second Section is the personal Settings
- About Me. Configure user details
- Accessibility. Improve accessibility for differently abled people
- Default Application
- Regional and Language Settings
Going over to Network and Connectivity Section
- Network Settings: Set Connection preferences, proxy etc.
- Setting for Samba Client (Not Server) Windows Share
- Date & Time
- Display Settings
- Font Installer
- Joystick configuration
- Keyboard & Mouse Settings
- Sound Settings
These are normal settings. The Settings manager considers some more settings are part of Advanced Settings
- File Associations
- Input Actions
- KDE Resources
- KDE Wallet
- Service Manager
- Session Manager
- Solid Configuration
and - Samba Configuration. I do not have Samba installed so got this message
I liked the new and crisp interface, please do share with me how you liked this screenshot tour.
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4 comments:
I find systemsettings to be much less usable than kcontrol. The layout is unintuitive and non-linear, and it takes more time to find a module.
Also, I cannot see the list of modules anymore while I'm configuring something, so it takes longer to switch from module to module.
I wish they wouldn't dramatically change the layout of an important program like this without making the change configurable :(
(also, what's the point of the name change, anyway?)
One other thing I forget to mention. Unless I somehow missed it (I don't think I did), there's no way to run a module as root to say, change login manager settings, from within systemsettings. In kcontrol in KDE 3, it was possible to simply click a button to switch to root for editing a module, then drop root permissions when switching to another module. This makes things very inconvenient for configuring system (i.e. not user-specific) settings.
I like the new systemsettings. You can run it as root by typing into a shell "kdesu systemsettings". It's kind of a pain that there's no administrator mode button, but it shouldn't be said that it can't be done.
IMO systemsettings is not usable. The big icons are nice for kids but not for people who want to work with the PC. It takes more time to find the right category compared to the fast navigation in kcontrol. And if you are not sure where a configuration option is located, then you are get crazy if you always have to kick the back button to switch to another module in systemsettings.
Systemsettings was not design in terms of usability but in terms of unusability.
But I'm not the only one who thinks so:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=423648
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