D22884: [RFC] Don't show title on page by default

[Noah Davis]

ndavis added a comment.


  In D22884#505718 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22884#505718>, @aspotashev wrote:
  
  > In D22884#505656 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22884#505656>, @ndavis wrote:
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  > > Perhaps it is technically a bug, but it seems to me that most of the time (at least in all of the KDE programs I have installed), the title is just the section name, "Configure (the) [section name]" or "[secion name] Options". In Krita, the page titles are sometimes even shorter than the section names. However, if the bug is so widespread and the intended way of using a page title is so rare, perhaps we should disable page titles by default? It also seems to me that if a page needs an additional description that the user can't see until they get to the page, perhaps the section name isn't accurate or descriptive enough?
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  > It's not always "Configure [section name]". You can't have a long section name or it would be truncated. When the section name can't describe all the aspects of a KCM, its title can be used to elaborate.
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  > Examples:
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  > - section name "KDE Connect", title "Connect and sync your devices"
  > - section name "Screen Edges", title "Active Screen Corners and Edges"
  
  
  Those would be decent page titles if we actually used them. "Active Screen Corners and Edges" is used for a GroupBox title.
  
  F7141400: Screenshot_20190802_110857.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F7141400>
  
  F7141402: Screenshot_20190802_110917.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F7141402>
  
  > Even if we manage to make section names and titles short and descriptive at some point in time, we shouldn't block way for new KCMs that might be too complicated to be named with just a couple of words.
  
  Yes, but we have more room than you think. In the System Settings, KCM titles barely use half of the width (it scales with font size as well). In application configuration windows, we just created a lot more vertical space ( D22083 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22083> ). I would also argue that complex KCMs should not attempt to explain their purpose all at once in the title.
  
  F7141429: Screenshot_20190802_111743.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F7141429>
  
  This is not a KCM, but it looks like one. It puts a few long words in the title that it couldn't put in its section name (Language Support). However, the title is still unnecessary because the Code Completion and Semantic Code Highlighting have their own GroupBox titles.

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