Review Request: Remove confusing destkop-theme-details kcm from system-settings

Aaron Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Thu May 13 18:48:32 CEST 2010



> On 2010-05-13 07:46:59, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > From my experience doing user support this KCM *is* required. Users want to tweak the theme and only details like change the background of the panel. Without an appropriate replacement the functionality should not be removed. And yes I consider having only kcmshell4 foobar as functionality removed. For me it would not be easily launchable anymore as I have to go through the list of all existing kcms.
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> > Btw if we want to start removing all kcms that are confusing to the user on first run, we can at least get rid of 90 % of the kcms. That would probably solve the vertical space problem. In general I think all KWin KCMs except screen edges are confusing. What exactly is a virtual desktop?

"From my experience doing user support this KCM *is* required."

but for a very small minority of our users only. and we will soon have the desktop theme back under the workspace appearance entry and then we have a new kind of problem.

maybe i'll just add the button Marco mentions.


- Aaron


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On 2010-05-13 02:46:20, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-05-13 02:46:20)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Summary
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> desktop-theme-details kcm is very confusing on  first run.  Many users expect it to set the global default plasma theme, and most users probably don't even care for the functionality it exposes.  So this patch hides it, and it can still be called by kcmshell4 destkopthemedetails.
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> I am willing to write a script that calls kcmshell4 desktopthemedetails but wonder if the users that care to use this probably know that command already anyway.
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> Also, I thought of making this into a standalone app like oxygen-settings, but as a kcm it can be re-introduced into a "TweakUi" like app at a later time if someone wants to write such a thing. :)
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/tools/desktopthemedetails/desktopthemedetails.desktop 1123694 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3960/diff
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> Testing
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> Built and installed with this change, and it works here. kcmshell4 destkopthemedetails still launches it even though it doesn't appear in system-settings any longer.
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> Thanks,
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> Jeremy
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