Review Request: Desktop Settings Theme Details

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----- Original Message ----
> From: Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>
> To: plasma-devel at kde.org
> Sent: Monday, October 6, 2008 8:03:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Review Request: Desktop Settings Theme Details
> 
> On Monday 06 October 2008, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Monday 06 October 2008 09:28:14 Andrew Lake wrote:
> > > Summary
> > > -------
> > >
> > > Adds a "Theme Details" tab to the Desktop Settings.  Allows user to
> > > change individual theme items by picking from another theme or from a
> > > file specified by the user.  Just scratching an itch... been envying
> > > analog clocks from some themes and thought it would be useful to be able
> > > to do this easily.
> > >
> > > (Just realized that this might have been a pretty big patch for review
> > > board, but oh well... let me know if you prefer to do this differently)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps and please feel free to provide feedback.
> >
> > I think this does not belong into desktop settings. How about doing it in a
> > separate application for theme designers? it wouldn't clutter one of our
> > primary userinterfaces this way...
> 
> agreed... having a workspace/plasma/tools/desktopthemedesigner would be great, 
> though
>


No problem, I can make the new tab into a separate app.  Would a kcm for this be ok?

I was kinda thinking of this not as strictly as a designer tool but something more for the user similar to the colors kcm but for the plasma theme. The user can currently change the color scheme (main tab) or can change components of the color scheme (colors tab or in the main view in 3.x).  If the user chooses they can save any changes to a new color scheme name, import or remove color schemes.  As a user, I think it would be convenient to be able to easily change, say just the analog clock or the panel background to one I downloaded from KDE look, or to one I prefer from a different theme.   I think the use cases are similar to the colors kcm but for the plasma theme.  It's kinda all-or-nothing right now.

Also, if it's relatively easy for the user to change then it might motivate more theme-authors who are only willing or able to focus one thing (a really cool clock or panel) but who might not be willing or able to do an entire theme.

So I was rather hoping this would be not too difficult to find for the user.  I hoping a kcm (even if its under "Advanced") would be ok for this reason.

Thanks much for the feedback and hope this will be helpful,
Andrew