Bug#502868: kcontrol: cannot configure kde version 4 programs

[Sune Vuorela <sune@vuorela.dk>]

On Monday 20 October 2008 15:22:02 Noel Köthe wrote:
> Package: kcontrol
> Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5
> Severity: important
> File: kcontrol
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm running lenny and on the machine are the kde 3.5.9 packages 
and some
> packages with version 4 which are in lenny, too.
>
> kdebase-runtime
> kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4
> kdebase-runtime-data
> kdelibs-bin
> ...
>
> The problem is that kcontrol only configures .kde3 and .kde4 is not 
handled
> by kcontrol.
>
> The kde-open program (kde4) for example isn't aware of the 
configured
> emailclient (icedove instead of kmail) because the path of the 
configure
> changes and I need to find how to configure it with an editor.
>
> The problem I see is that with the mixture of KDE3 and 4 in lenny the 
user
> can use KDE 4 applications but cannot configure them as they would 
expect.
>
> I hope its understandable where I had and see a problem for our 
users.

Hi

Systemsettings can configure kde4 things

/Sune