overhaul of some kcm appearance

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:22:40PM -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 09 March 2009, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:37:23PM +0100, Marco Martin wrote:
> > > is it ok? comments?
> >
> > i protest the idea of pulling libplasma into everything.
> 
> not that it is anyone's goal to "pull libplasma into everything", but
> what is your objection to using it where it makes sense?
> 
pulling a 2 meg lib (which again pulls something like 40 more libs of
*very* varying sizes) for one small class is where "makes sense" does
not apply by my standards.

> > the background configurer for plasma can handle Plasma::Wallpaper
> > itself.
> 
> so make every plasma based application (not just the one dialog) more
> complex instead of just using it where it makes sense? that isn't
> sensible.
> 
if you can come up with sufficiently many plasma apps to justify it (by
whatever standards you may want to apply), you are free to add a derived
class to libplasma for convenience.

while "plasma everywhere" may seem self-evident to you, not all of kde
is or even should be somehow plasma-related. if you think something is
of utility beyond plasma, then put it in some more "neutral" place
instead of making "beyond" use plasma.