GTK System Settings Module in 12.10

[Rick Timmis]

On 1 Jul 2012, at 13:21, Aleix Pol <a

> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi Jonathan,
> > First of all, I'm glad you're interested in working in this new KCM we made.
> > I'm convinced that the new one can add some value.
> >
> > I have not much to add, about the GTK dependency, it can be compiled without
> > the gtk_* executables. In this case you wouldn't get examples but it would
> > still work. If it doesn't ping me and we can probably manage it. On the
> > other hand, it shows that something wrong is going on. Who'd want to
> > configure GTK without GTK installed?
> 
> that last point makes me wonder... how about making muon/qapt install
> the KCM only once libgtk gets installed? it does indeed not make sense
> to configure GTK without having GTK installed so why should we have it
> on the CD if there is no GTK on the CD (altho IMHO configuring GTK
> altogether does not make sense as it should use Qt's style, but oh
> well).
> 
> HS
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> I guess that if GTK is properly configured in Kubuntu by default, the KCM is not needed. If somebody needs to tweak what the applications look like, he can install that. Maybe.
> 
> On the other hand, I wouldn't hack such rules in muon, if anywhere this should happen in the apt level. If we add weird behaviors in muon, then we risk the user thinking that magic is happening and being scared of using it comfortably with the solid deb/apt base.
> 
> Aleix
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This sounds like a very good compromise. I'm in favour of look n feel consistency, and if we can provide something like that across QT and GTK by default, this sound like a good solution to me

ATB
Rick
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