KDE settings program from command line

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 23 18:32:23 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:03:42 Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:48, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 18:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >> No, that is up to F8, and he is running F9.  In KDE4 systemsettings
> > >> replaces kcontrol
> > >
> > > Hi Anne. I think you may find that kcontrol is still available, but not
> > > showing on the menu for KDE4.0. I say this because on my Archlinux
> > > install (KDE 3.5) systemsettings was on the menu, but no kcontrol. An
> > > enquiry to the list said to look in
> > > /usr/share/applications/kde/kcontrol.desktop. If you open this file
> > > while su'ed to root, at the bottom of the file is a
> >
> > Only distros that choose to support kde3/kde4 parallel-installability
> > have anything like that.  Fedora does not.
> >
> > -- Rex
>
> Hi Rex. Obviously I have put my foot in it then. That's what comes from
> answering questions on a distro you havn't yet installed.
>
> I would still say that I prefer kcontrol, than systemsettings though.
>
I thought so too, at first.  It looks sparse, for a start, but that's because 
some of the settings that were in kcontrol are now in the apps that need 
them.  Makes sense, when you think about it.

Anne

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