[Bug 303530] New: weird having two "appearance" subcategories

[Mathieu Roy]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303530

            Bug ID: 303530
          Severity: wishlist
           Version: 4.8.4
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: weird having two "appearance" subcategories
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: yeupou at gnu.org
          Hardware: Debian testing
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: systemsettings

Hello,

First, let me say I like systemsettings way much more than kcontrol :-)

I'm puzzled, however, to have two "appearance" subcategories, namely "common
appearance and behavior" and "workspace appearance and behavior". 

It was not like this in the past so I guess you gave some thought to it but,
frankly, each time I use systemsetting I get confused. And each time I set up
KDE for someone else that is neither a geek or a poweruser but just some common
folk, I end up going to both application appearence and workspace appearance
anyway. And I guess that the distinction between "application", "workspace" and
"desktop" is overkill for plenty users. 

Moreover, I do not really understand how something is distinguished from being
"common".  (Note that with some sets of translations, in French for instance,
"common" subcategorie is presented to the user after "workspace" one). I mean
"default applications" is branded "workspace", how is it more workspace
specific than locales? Personal info is where I put my name, how does it relate
to "appearance and behavior"? 

Wouldn't it be possible to get all the basic appareance (colors, icons,
background images) under the same umbrella and all the behavioral stuff apart?
We often talk about look and feel as it was just one thing. In fact, we more
often want to change the look than the feel. There's no learning curve whenever
you change colors, icons, etc.

I understand it's quite hard to find a way to organize this stuff in a way that
makes sense to most users. But I think there's room for improvement here.
You have plenty of things users won't change often, probably will never change
after the initial setup ("account details", "locale", "defaut applications") so
maybe they should be apart, then you have cosmetics (colors, icons) then you
have behavior (of workspaces, desktop, etc). Maybe this could be a start? Is
there an ongoing discussion about this?





Reproducible: Always

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