Re:Here's all he actually says (Score 3, Interesting)

Or just split the difference, keep everyone happy, and decide to do both proposals. Hence leading to configuration boxes from hell adorned with approximately seven thousand checkboxes.

Ah, I see you have discovered KDE's design guidelines.

That's not funny, it's sad... In a fresh kde 3.2 on my dell desktop, I have an extended "Sony Vaio Laptop Hardware configuration" panel in control center. Wtf? It is not only completely unusable, but KDE is even aware of that, as every option is grayed out and there's a complaint about a missing driver.