Setting Look and Feels

[Aleix Pol]

This is what the KCM looks like with my plasma-phone-components patch applied:
https://i.imgur.com/JtJ2VZ3.png

I suggest polishing it with that use-case then see if we need to work
on it in an entirely different way over the 5.23 timespan.

Aleix

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:33 PM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
>
> There have been persistent calls--both in the VDG as well as by users--
> for the Global Theme/LNF system to become better at the "feel" side, as
> you put it (I like that!). I've still got
> https://phabricator.kde.org/D24223 open, which was about the feel side
> of the equation, and I still don't think it would be a bad idea to do.
>
> If we don't want to make Global Themes too much about the "feel" side,
> then I think we need to create a new "Desktop Layout" KCM that's all
> about the feels. Then we could put this sort of thing you're thinking of
> in there--as well as what I was proposing in
> https://phabricator.kde.org/D24223.
>
> Nate
>
>
> On 8/31/21 10:27 AM, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I was looking at why we're not getting the phone shell listed along
> > our different look and feels, I realised it's because the plasma phone
> > shell doesn't have any defaults at the moment. You'll think "What? No
> > specific phone settings?".
> > This is because we have a separate repository that installs those in
> > system-wide.
> > https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasma-phone-settings
> >
> > Most of these settings (especially those in /etc/xdg/) would be
> > possible to specify as defaults.
> > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-phone-components/-/merge_requests/183
> >
> > A problem to do that straight out is that at the moment we're
> > specifying each setting separately rather than taking them at bulk,
> > trusting the lnf.
> > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/kcms/lookandfeel/kcm.cpp#L354
> >
> > This works, provided we enable the different settings that we need,
> > like this, doing it for every single configuration option could be
> > tedious and error-prone:
> > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1029
> >
> > Now, is this something that we would like to entertain? I'd say it's a
> > good way to configure a system to use a certain Plasma experience (be
> > it Plasma Phone, Big Screen, etc). On the other hand, it also might
> > dilute the current use of the look and feel kcm which is more about
> > Look and less about Feel.
> >
> > What do you think?
> > Aleix
> >