kubuntu patches, ksmserver context and kickoff changes

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Tue Oct 7 23:57:55 CEST 2008


Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for passing your patches upstream, definitely appreciated :)

On Tuesday 07 October 2008 00:48:23 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> We've added a couple of patches to plasma and ksmserver in Kubuntu for
> KDE 4.1.
>
> The first is based on one from suse and changes ksmserver's logout
> dialogue to only show the action selected from kickoff.  So if you
> select reboot, it only shows reboot.

+1

> It also changes some strings to make them more readable and consistent
> with other strings
>   "Reboot computer in 1 second." -> "Restarting computer in 1 second."

+1

> No action timeout it set to 30 seconds instead of 60.

+1

> I'm afaid I havn't had time to look if this is still useful in KDE 4.2.
>
> http://www.kubuntu.org/~jriddell/kubuntu_15_kickoff_ksmserver_logout.diff
>
> The second is more subjective, feel free not to discuss if it has
> already been covered in previous discussions.  It makes the subtext
> for items in kickoff always show, currently the reason they're shown
> or not it unclear to the user who has to move the mouse over to get
> useful information.  It also removes the spacing before the subtext,
> the change in colour is enough information on the role of the text.
>
> http://www.kubuntu.org/~jriddell/kubuntu_19_always_show_kickoff_subtext.dif
>f

I think we've religiously discussed this before :)
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sebas

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