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GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name

Posted by timothy on from the keyboard-chooser-by-any-other-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The developer of the KDE System Settings application has launched a formal complaint against GNOME for renaming 'Control Center' to 'System Settings' in GNOME 3.0. This developer is demanding that GNOME immediately change the name of their control panel area. Developers on both sides are now discussing this act."

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  1. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    RTFA. The real issue is that duplicating the name is causing system conflicts for those with both installed.

  2. Two menu items with the same name by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have two menu items with the same name, how do you decide which to choose? The short-term solution being proposed in the thread is to rename the "System Settings" of whatever desktop is not in use: call GNOME's app "GNOME System Settings" when in a KDE desktop.

    1. Re:Two menu items with the same name by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Informative

      That is precisely how they decided to solve it, to everyone's satisfaction. Nothing to see here anymore, move along.