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I have Fedora Core 5 installed on my laptop. The reason I went with Fedora is because it was the only Distro to properly support my hardware. I have worked diligently to replace all the Gnome stuff with KDE and I even have KDM now instead of GDM. However, the Fedora team set the Gnome Control Panel as the default for hardware control and I want to enable the hardware section and KCMs in KDE's Control Center.

I know I have the Printer KCM module at least and may already have the others not sure if I do or don't but I need to dig to find out or get a definitive answer on that.

I have KDE 3.5.4 installed.

My questions are:

What are the names of the KCMs for hardware administration?

How do I enable them in kcontrol?

--Shaun

I just found the kcontroleditor (didn't even know there was such a beast) so I am at least on the right track. All I need now is the location of the KCMs and or their filenames.

--Shaun

I am still digging and it APPEARS (I say this carefully, its Fedora after all) that I can start any standard KCM module with the command kcmshell [module name] meaning they are there but not listed when I ask for a module list.

So would anyone with a complete KDE control center please (I do mean PLEAAASSEE) give me a complete list of the modules and a complete menu map in the KDE control center.

How to get your module list:

In a Konsole type kcmshell --list

Thank You Very Much in advance.

--Shaun

Still digging and I do have all the KCMs however I need to know what the name of the global configuration file for Kcontrol is. Once I have that I can then fix this &^%* thing the way I want.

Anybody know?

--Shaun

I found that information as well but it took some major digging to come across it. The files mentioned are under the section Essential Menus:

"$KDEDIR/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ contains kde-essential_menu which includes some essential menus that are normally not shown in the KDE menu itself.

Control Center has a hidden Settings menu whose contents are defined by kde-settings.menu and whose icon and name are defined by kde-settings.directory."

I am still digging but so far have come up with squate for the file that has the ACTUAL menu list. I know it exists and can be modified. I just installed KBFX and lo and behold there is a new addition in Control Center under Appearance and Themes for KBFX.

I'm telling you freaking Fedora is really on my nerves.

Kiosk saved the day. I don't know why I didn't try that before.

--Shaun

Well after a long and drawn out learning curve steeped in utter agravation at times, I have removed the Gnome Intergration from Fedora Core 5 and setup full KDE control and intergration. The only thing left of Gnome is some librarys and backend apps to run GTk based apps.

KDE actually runs faster and better now that I have removed the Gnome control system. I will be writing a HOWTO on this. Simply because for all I went through, no one else should suffer the same fate and pain.

--Shaun