Help on .desktop files for oxygen

[Steven Sroka]

On 6 May 2011 12:53, Parker Coates <parker.coates at kdemail.net> wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 05:50, Hugo Pereira Da Costa  wrote:
>> Some follow-up.
>>
>> I coded locally the necessary changes to have "oxygen-settings" included
>> inside "systemsettings", even when through changing the various pages into
>> KCModules, and ... well ... it pretty much defeats the purpose (see
>> screenshot at: http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpg-0-plasma-desktopye3595)
>>
>> The result is that the "advanced" configuration is now more visible than the
>> "basic" ones (located in Application Appearance and Workspace Appearance,
>> for widget and decoration style), which is pretty much the opposite of what
>> oxygen-settings was trying to achieve ...
>>
>> So unless someone has a better idea (or disagrees with the above), I guess
>> I'll leave things unchanged (oxygen-settings as a non-advertised standalone
>> application) for kde 4.7.
>>
>> Oppinions ? Comments ? Ideas ? (somehow I wish system-settings still had its
>> "advanced" tab).
>
> Why not just do something like http://i.imgur.com/vTJ00.png ?
>
> It's not particularly elegant and opening dialogs from dialogs is
> typically frowned upon, but it's an easy, simple, practical way of
> letting users discover oxygen-settings without having to broadcast its
> existence in the menu or the top level of system settings.

I would say that because "It's not particularly elegant and opening
dialogs from dialogs is typically frowned upon" that this isn't a good
option. I don't know of an alternative though...

>
> Parker
>