Plasma Containment default setting

Aurélien Gâteau agateau at kde.org
Fri Jun 22 22:52:58 UTC 2012


Le jeudi 21 juin 2012 11:09:16 Aaron J. Seigo a écrit :
> On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 23:54:57 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > I imagine this could then be used in Dolphin's context menu 'Actions' and
> > possibly in Gwenview too. Should there be such dbus-interface, I would add
> > those patches to Dolphin and Gwenview.
> 
> the things i look at and weigh are:
> 
> * will the feature work consistently (multiple screens, per-virtual desktop
> containments, etc..) and not just work for some configurations
> 
> * what is the cost to the codebase (how complex will the patches to plasma-
> desktop be .. and this does require patches there)
> 
> * is this valuable enough to add another item to the context menu? context
> menus ought to be fairly focused otherwise they become a clutter of options
> that become more difficult to sort through. we support setting the wallpaper
> through drag and drop, so this is a consideration here.
> 
> given the above, i'd much rather see the DnD support that already exists and
> works used with dolphin and gwenview.
FWIW, having the ability to set wallpaper from within Gwenview (not through 
DnD) is a feature which is quite often requested.

Aurélien


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