Review Request 123530: Improve interactivity for the user icon and search field in kickoff

[Sebastian Kügler]

> On April 27, 2015, 2:56 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > Personally I don't think anyone needs to open the accounts KCM so often we need to link to it. I suspect it'll get more accidental opens than legit ones.
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> > The other changes seems good though.
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> Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
>     I for one would expect it to be interactive, and it closely matches what Windows (and Gnome Shell too afaik) does.
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> Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>     By "User Account kcm" you mean the "Password and User Account" kcm, right? I think that's okay, as it lets you edit the information that is shown there. If we get lots of bug reports form people accidentally clicking it, we might reconsider.
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> Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
>     Yup exactly, it lets you edit what is being shown there - the user name and your face/icon.

I must say that I quite like this idea, too. I've seen too many reviews where the user didn't bother to change the face icon in Kickoff, while it looks really cool and is a nice personalization point.


- Sebastian


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On April 27, 2015, 5:04 p.m., Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
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> (Updated April 27, 2015, 5:04 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and KDE Usability.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> This patch makes the user icon and search field clickable. Upon clicking the former, the User Account kcm is opened, in the latter case the search field gets visible and activated.
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> Diffs
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>   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml 15dde96 
>   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Header.qml dfabbe5 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123530/diff/
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> Testing
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> Everything works as expected, pressing Esc either cancels the search and/or closes the menu popup.
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> Thanks,
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> Lukáš Tinkl
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