Questions about Plasma Activities

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday 10 January 2009, Virtual Sky Solutions wrote:
> that KDE has, but what does it matter if I want a black / grey checkerboard
> vs. a white / grey?  

this brings us to the next set of questions:

Where do we put this configuration option, how do we label it, what do we let 
the user set it to? (set choices, free colours, pixmaps..)

the possibilities are numerous:

* re-use the wallpaper plugins, and use them to paint the background of the 
view

* colourize the checkerboard

* allow the user to define a pixmap to use as a tiling pattern (this is what 
the checkerboard is, btw)

none of these are overly difficult to code. the question is all about the 
impact on the user experience when it comes to configuring it.

i don't think putting this in the Appearances Settings dialog is good: it 
isn't the right context (putting the Plasma theme there is already pushing it 
too far imho) and that dialog is already overly complex.

there's a "need" for global plasma settings, perhaps. theme, colours, etc. 
perhaps that is what belongs in system settings and could be offered via the 
checkerboard background when zoomed out as well.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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