The KDE 4.3 System Settings - Part 2 - Personal + Network & Connectivity (Page 1 of 5)
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Steve Lake
Posted on: Feb 03, 2010 at 02:14pm
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Welcome to part 2 of our overview of the KDE 4.3 System Settings panel, the replacement for the old control panel of KDE 3.5. Today we're going to look at two more master sections. Namely, Personal and Network & Connectivity. So sit back and enjoy.
About Me
The About Me section is a master section designed with your personal information and settings in mind. These range from passwords and accessibility, to region settings and language.
Password & User Account
The Password & User Account section tells the computer several minor, but important things about you and your preferences for your user account. This section is broken into three key areas: Avatar and Password, User Information and Password Prompt. The Avatar and Password area gives you the ability to add a user avatar (assuming your login template supports avatars), or change an existing one, as well as change your user password for the next time you log in. The ability to change your password is very easy and will take you less than a minute to complete should you want to.
The User Information area gives you five pieces of information, three of which you can directly change. The first is Name. You can *technically* change this. But unless you have some programs that draw information from this (which tend to be few and far between), it's best to not change this line. It's also one of the reasons it's inactive, since the developers also recommend leaving this alone apparently, which is a good thing IMHO.
The next three deal with much the same thing. There are some programs that will initially draw information from these fields, but will never use that information again. And even if they do draw information, you're likely to change it anyways. So there's really no point in touching anything in this area. The last item on the list, while not changeable, *may* come in handy in the future, as it reports what your user id is on the system.
Lastly is the Password Prompt area. This allows you to determine how your password will be hidden. You can chose to have the system display one, three, or no asterisks (*) per letter of your password. To each person their preference on this, as the default is one per letter. Although, if you want to have a little fun and totally confuse the daylights out of your coworkers, family or friends, you can set it to show none. That way when they try to type in your password, they think it's broken and won't be able to get in. Well, unless you show them the trick.
Paths
The Paths section is a simplified way to modify the paths that the system holds as defaults for certain operations or particular needs. In general, the vast majority of people should stay out of. But if you need to, it's a useful way to manage your user directory and decide the folder names and paths that each area will use.
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