Smooth scrolling setting

[Luciano Montanaro]

On Monday 16 June 2008, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I was told couple days ago by a user that he wanted to disable the 'smooth
> scrolling' feature. I just told him to go to Konqueror settings, and
> disable it.
>
> He later told me that the problem was with KHelpCenter, which uses khtml
> (as well as KMail, and others...). The smooth scrolling was going hell slow
> on his computer, and he had no way of disabling the feature on places which
> are not Konqueror (but using khml part).
>
> From what I see, the place of this setting is wrong. So, there seems to be
> 2 different problems:
>
> 1) khtml part don't reading the value, or the kcm saving it somewhere else,
> where it is not read by the khtml part, only from konqueror. This needs to
> be fixed, for all apps using khtml part obeying the setting.
>
> 2) The setting is misplaced. I don't see why a user should 'know' that for
> disabling the smooth scrolling of his/her KMail application, he/she should
> go to Konqueror settings.
>
> Regarding 2), as I worked on the animations thing, which will appear on
> 4.2, I really thought that it wasn't worth creating a new kcm for
> systemsettings (I wanted to call it "performance") for only a combobox for
> 'what level of animation you want?'. But I now see that this setting (maybe
> others too) could be moved to that kcm, since it is basically a performance
> setting.
>
> Ideas ? Comments ?
>

Yes, please, do so. I was thinking smooth scrolling could go in the "style" 
settings, but there are more settings than smooth scrolling, it may be good to 
group them.

Maybe it would be good to have a look at the settings panels for the core 
packages applications and move common options to some global setting panel...

Options that bothered me in KDE 3.5 were those relative to the tab bar 
settings... like "close on hover", where to put the close widget and so on...

Luciano


>
> Regards,
> Rafael Fernández López.


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