Review Request: Humble attempt to improve the ScreenSaver KCM

Aleix Pol Gonzalez aleixpol at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 15:43:08 UTC 2012


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Review request for Plasma and KDE Usability.


Description
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After complaining about this KCM last week, I wanted to give it a try to improve it a little. I think that the biggest stopper here is wanting to keep the screensaver here, because we've ended up with a 3-head monster:
* simple locker
* plasma-based locker
* xscreensavers

Since it seems it's something we may want for the moment. IMHO, we should end up with the Plasma-based option alone. I just tried to re-organize it in a way I like a little better.

What I did
- I aligned the locking labels to the left, like the Form Layout suggests. It creates a small puzzle, I'm unsure if that's a problem.
- I added toolTips and whatsThis in the locking type option buttons, so that we can at least figure out what will happen when we lock.


Diffs
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  kcontrol/screensaver/screensaver.ui 6524e27 
  kcontrol/screensaver/scrnsave.cpp 0125620 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106768/diff/


Testing
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just messed with it for a while.


Screenshots
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result
  http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106768/s/758/


Thanks,

Aleix Pol Gonzalez

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