Thursday, July 22, 2004

I'll take Things Without GUIs for 100, Alex

KDcop, kdebugdialog ... we tend to expose the hidden bits of KDE through cute little GUIs that we developers need ( while (itch.itchy()) { itch.scratch() } ) but we often do not afford our users the same niceties. three cases in point: session files, autostart files, servicemenus. i've wanted to do something about the latter two for a while. had a bit of time at work today, and the other stuff i'm puttering on is @ home, so... i started in on a control panel for autostart files. it doesn't do everything under the sun possible with autostart files (e.g. X-KDE-UniqueApplet), but the people who need this UI probably don't need much. then i'll see what more people want from it through feedback and decide what, if anything to add.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Some developers are already working on a tool to create/manage service menus:
http://www.tuthtu.net/projects.htm#ksm

Cheers,
Kevin