user and printer management missing from system settings

[Benjamin Kay]

Binary package hint: systemsettings

I'm using Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Beta, x86_64. User (kuser) and printer (system-config-printer-kde) are both accessible under the "System" menu, but neither is accessible from System Settings (systemsettings). Both of these were present in System Settings in KDE 3 in Kubuntu 8.04. Logically, they belong in System Settings. This is a minor regression, but fixing it ought to be trivial.

systemsettings 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu11
kuser 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu1
system-config-printer-kde 0.11

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

If we were sorcerers fixing it would be trivial indeed. Thing is, we are only ninjas, so no luck there.

Anywho, KUser is going to be rewritten from scratch, with new user interface and fancy design and stuff. That is only going to happen for KDE 4.3 or 4.4 though, until then this bug will not be fixed.
There is a good chance KUser will be replaced by userconfig (pythonKDE based app) as in KDE 3, if it will embedd in systemsettings is still unkown though.
Same applies for the printer, which already is pythonKDE.

I am closing this bug as Won't Fix for now, technically it is a can't fix. But rest assured, once we are able to embedd these applications in systemsettings again, we will do that.

Thank you for this report nonetheless.

[Benjamin Kay (benkay)]

You're right, the kcm modules have gone missing! Clearly they have been spirited away by code ninjas. Hopefully everything related to KDE system settings will eventually end up in System Settings (perhaps in time for Jaunty?), because it totally defeats the point of *having* a System Settings if they don't. That, or System Settings could be hacked to launch executables.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Well, the applications need to be converted into actual modules for systemsettings. I am not sure we will archive this for Jaunty, I do hope so though.

Eventually at some point we will just be able to embed applications without further modifications.