new systemsettings categorization landed

[Andres Silva]

Heiko Tietze wrote:
> Hi Vishesh & all,
>
> I agree that it makes more sense to place it with the desktop stuff.
> Maybe we had application = file in mind? The only argument against
> desktop behavior is that this topic gets somewhat bulky. And I'm not
> sure that users will associate all the modules including file search
> with the caption. For balancing we should consider to split the topic
> perhaps like this
>
> Application Features
> * Accessibility
> * File Search
> * Activities
>
> Desktop Behavior
> * Global Workspace Options
> * Desktop Effects
> * Screen Edges
> * Virtual Desktops
>
> What do you think?

Maybe we are too stuck with the general category labels. You can always 
change that to one that is more inclusive and less specific. I would 
suggest Desktop Settings, rather than Behavior, because that word seems 
to exclude other kcms that could well fit the category.

>
> Cheers,
> Heiko.
>
> Am 01.07.2014 17:09:31, schrieb Vishesh Handa:
>
>     Hey guys.
>
>     I don't understand why "File Search" (formerly Desktop Search)
>     should go under Applications.
>
>     Current application which can be used to search for files - Dolphin.
>     Current workspace stuff which can be used to search - KRunner,
>     Milou, Kickoff and Kicker.
>
>     It seems rather odd for it to be under applications. Could someone
>     please elaborate on the rationale behind it? I've tried reading the
>     forums, but I haven't really found much.
>
>
>
>     On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org
>     <mailto:sebas at kde.org>> wrote:
>
>         Hey,
>
>         So as the subject suggests, I've just landed the new
>         categorization for
>         systemsettings. Changes are all over the place, so if you just
>         update single
>         repositories, your systemsettings will be quite empty. If you're
>         re-running
>         kdesrc-build, you'll find a mess with old and new categorized
>         intermixed (is
>         "intermixed" a word? If not, we should make it one.)
>
>         A clean installation will give you the desired results, but you
>         can also just
>         delete all categories before running kdesrc-build:
>
>         rm `kf5-config --prefix`/share/kservices5/settings*
>
>         (Use at your own risk.)
>
>         After that, running kde-src build should get you into the new
>         systemsettings
>         state. If you notice anything strange, please refer to this
>         thread and discuss
>         your issues there:
>         http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=121053&start=60
>         <http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=121053&start=60>
>
>         If you notice that I did something wrong when turning the huge
>         graphic into
>         changes to .desktop files, please let me know, and I'll fix it.
>
>
>         Special thanks goes to our interaction and visual designers who
>         did the
>         research for this new categorization. I personally think it's a big
>         improvement.
>
>         Going forward, there's a lot of work ahead, and this is only the
>         beginning. We
>         need to overhaul KCMs, we need to simplify settings, modernize
>         UIs, and we
>         will likely also introduce a new shell (which we can do
>         gradually with the
>         different view plugins in systemsettings). For an experiment,
>         try the
>         sebas/quick branch in systemsettings. This new categorization is
>         only the
>         first step, and we decided to push this into 5.0, since it's a
>         user-visible
>         change, and we can keep things rather more stable from here on out.
>
>         Cheers,
>         --
>         sebas
>
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>
>
>     --
>     Vishesh Handa
>
>