Monday, January 14, 2008

KDE4 System Settings

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.
  1. Appearance :: Configure Theme, Colors, Style

  2. Desktop: Configure Cool desktop Effects and Screen Saver

  3. Notification : System Notifications and Bell

  4. Splash Screen

  5. Window Behavior : Titlebar Actions, Windows Actions, Focus, Moving Actions etc.

Second Section is the personal Settings
  1. About Me. Configure user details

  2. Accessibility. Improve accessibility for differently abled people

  3. Default Application

  4. Regional and Language Settings

Going over to Network and Connectivity Section
  1. Network Settings: Set Connection preferences, proxy etc.

  2. Setting for Samba Client (Not Server) Windows Share

KDE4 System Setting also provide some Computer Administration settings
  1. Date & Time

  2. Display Settings

  3. Font Installer

  4. Joystick configuration

  5. Keyboard & Mouse Settings

  6. Sound Settings


These are normal settings. The Settings manager considers some more settings are part of Advanced Settings

  1. File Associations

  2. Input Actions

  3. KDE Resources

  4. KDE Wallet

  5. Service Manager

  6. Session Manager

  7. Solid Configuration

    and
  8. Samba Configuration. I do not have Samba installed so got this message
All in all, I can say that KDE4 System Settings provide and exhaustive interface for almost full system settings.
I liked the new and crisp interface, please do share with me how you liked this screenshot tour.


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