KDE Control Center
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| Author | Content |
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| Bob_Robertson May 15, 2008 10:16 AM EDT |
The author makes one big error: The KDE Control Center does not come from Mandrake Linux. Yes, both Mandriva and PCLinuxOS have it, but that's because they are KDE centric. The Control Center is a KDE program, included in every complete KDE distribution. Silly author. |
| tuxchick May 15, 2008 10:32 AM EDT |
It's amusing to me how so many distributions can't resist re-inventing the wheel, especially when it makes no sense to do so. KDE control center is perfectly usable, but that's not good enough, nooo. Instead of spending their resources fixing bugs or other worthy endeavors, the Kubuntu team created the System Settings menu. It's less complete than KDE control center, and in its first few iterations it didn't work at all because it wouldn't go into Administrative mode. The printer module is still a PITA that you can't depend on. Mandriva is the champion of redundant and conflicting graphical control panels, but they seem to have sorted that out at last. The article is a pretty good roundup that touches on some important features, though I wouldn't call Fedora polished. |
| azerthoth May 15, 2008 10:35 AM EDT |
Bob, the control center that is brought up by the author is not the KDE Control Center. That is present also on the system but not what is being talked up. The Mandriva control center (PCLOS too since it is/was mandriva based) is a much grander, functional, and powerful tool. You can handle 99% of all your system configuration from it. *tongue in cheek* Silly Bob. |
| rijelkentaurus May 15, 2008 10:43 AM EDT |
I think the author is referring to the Mandriva Control Center, much different and better than the KDE control center. The author also makes the mistake of saying that Mepis forked from Mandriva...of course it's a Debian-based distro. |
| rijelkentaurus May 15, 2008 10:44 AM EDT |
And Fedora isn't really supposed to be polished, IMO, it's supposed to be bleeding edge. |
| Bob_Robertson May 15, 2008 11:40 AM EDT |
I've run pclos, and seriously I didn't see anything other than the KDE control center. Could be i just wasn't looking. The comment about it having both Vaio and IBM laptop modules is what clinched it for me, because that is exactly what KDE control center has on Debian. If it is another control center he means, it boldly underlines tc's point about redundancy. |
| rijelkentaurus May 15, 2008 11:46 AM EDT |
On PCLOS there is an icon called "Configure your computer" and that's it. Not really sure how much redundancy there is. I use KDE Control Center for looks and eye candy, but sysadmin stuff is handled by the Mandriva/PCLOS tool. Users, software installs and updates, configure networking, etc. Much easier than anything else I have tried. Also sets up Samba, Apache, DNS and just about any type of server you could want. |
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