On Mon 25 July 2011 06:53:28 Alvaro Soliverez wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Monday 25 July 2011 15:57:16 Ben Cooksley wrote: > >> >> Otherwise our users will be the ones who will suffer. > >> > > >> > I really doubt anyone is going to 'suffer'... This > >> > NamingClashCrisis is more>> > >> They will. As an example, KMyMoney users for instance depend on System > >> Settings to be able to set their locale, and therefore the default > >> currency, date format, etc. > > > > In that case KMyMoney has to depend on systemsettings and has to become > > a workspace application which I think the workspace coordinators will > > rightfully refuse. If this is a must have configuration for KMyMoney it > > has to add the KCM to its own configuration options. In comparison you > > are also able to configure Phonon from within Amarok. > Be senseful, please. Any application that depends on locale settings > needs a way to set that correctly. > > I can tell the user to open a terminal, run kcmshell4 somethings, and > make the required change. Or, I can tell to open Systemsettings, > and adjust locale settings.
Or you could embed the locale settings KCM in the KMyMoney settings dialogs. KCMs are nice for a reason, and that reason is integration. So that IMPROVES your user experience, because instead of having to open some OTHER application, you tell them to open the KMyMoney configuration dialogs. r > BTW, this is a very common support situation, and personally, I will > very deeply hate the person responsible for making it even more > difficult to support my users under a different, which we do have, and > a lot of them. > > So, it's not a matter that there is an alternative way to do it. It's > the matter that so far, it was very easy to point them to a solution, > and now it's not. > > And existing solution on forums and otherwise, now won't work. > > And all that just because they chose a name that has been in use for > over 4 years by their closest partner. > > So, as an application developer, you can bikeshed all you want, but at > the end of the day, Gnome devs have made my life more difficult. > > Regards, > Alvaro > > KMyMoney development team -- Ryan Rix -- http://rix.si == OpenSource.com: Where Open Source Happens! = _ \/"/_ All Hail the Beefy Miracle! /_/ \ \
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