Can we drop kcontrol/workspaceoptions?

Eike Hein hein at kde.org
Sat Oct 26 17:54:09 UTC 2013


On Thursday 17 October 2013 19:51:24 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> It offers the following features:
> * switch between workspace type "Desktop" and "Netbook"
> * configure dashboard to "show Desktop widgets" or "Show an independent
> widget set"
> * checkbox for "show informational tips" (whatever that is)
> 
> The first one should be obsoleted by the new dynamic shell switcher. The
> second one is a questionable feature where I think some devs would like to
> see it go away and the last one I don't know what it is about.

The third one is the global knob to turn off Plasma's tooltips,
which are globally managed. This is a preference that many users
do use, and some distros change downstream (and if an option is
not in the GUI it tends to bitrot), so let's not throw it away.


> Cheers
> Martin

Cheers,
Eike


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