Review Request: Humble attempt to improve the ScreenSaver KCM

[Marco Martin]

On Sunday 14 October 2012, Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> >     Playing around with ideas a bit more: We could go "all the way" and
> >     have something like the theme, window deco and wallpaper selectors
> >     that show a list of the various options in preview. That would
> >     combine the preview and the selection in one view .. the challenge
> >     then becomes where to put things like the screen saver selection
> >     box, Test and Configure buttons.
> >     
> >     It's looking cleaner and more focused already, though, imho ...
> 
> I am imagining something like this:
> http://privat.broulik.de/lockermockup.png As you can see it is similar to
> the wallpaper selector. You have three grouped categories: Screen Locker,
> Plasma Widgets and Screen Savers. You have a preview picture of each theme
> (there will be theming support for the qml locker, right?). When you
> hover, or click, a screensaver it will show a preview inside the view.

there is a thing that doesn't convince me.
it has in the config dialog things like combinations of widgets (plasma 
clock...)
i would like to have in that dialog exactly nothing of that, but have it with 
direct manipulation of a running locker.

maybe for the screen saver and the locker greeter
would be more intuitive to have it there rather than in the wallpaper 
configuration of the running locker...
but then all happily breaks in case of multi monitor
(note than there is no desktop wallpaper configuration in systemsettings, 
that's partially the same reason)


Cheers, 
Marco Martin