Review Request: [RFC]: Rename "Configure Window Behavior" to "Configure Window Management"

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On March 16, 2012, 11:45 a.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > personally, i'm unsure why this menu entry is even there. imho people should simply go into system settings. this just makes one more place we have to manage which panels and in which order they are shown. is there really so much benefit to having it in the right click menu?
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> > now, i say that as someone who uses that menu item fairly often. so for *me* it has value there as a shortcut, but i'm rarely using it as a *user* but as a *developer* and watching others use KWin it's not an often used entry either.
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> > personally, despite my own use of this menu item, i think it's something best left to system settings.

A fair enough question. For me as a developer it is a must-have feature, though it does not need to be exposed that strongly (e.g. move to advanced submenu) or even adding a build option for it.

What I am unsure about is how much do we screw over the documentation teams. A google search on "Configure window behavior" KDE gives > 5000 results with references in books and so on. Search for the German translation gives another 700 results. It is a feature for advanced users and already quite hidden. But I think for providing user support it's quite a useful feature.


- Martin


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On March 15, 2012, 11:19 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated March 15, 2012, 11:19 a.m.)
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> Review request for kwin and Plasma.
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> Description
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> Adding Plasma to get general feedback on this idea.
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> The context menu entry to "Configure Window Behavior" opens the
> configuration of the window manager and not about the window.
> In the past the shown configuration dialog only contained entries
> affecting the window behavior but that is no longer true for the
> complete KDE 4.x series since Desktop Effects had been added to
> the menu. This change in naming reflects the situation and should
> help to remove confusion.
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> This addresses bug 249486.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249486
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> Diffs
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>   kwin/useractions.cpp dfb6fd4 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104284/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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