Desktop Theme Details KCM

Kai Uwe Broulik kde at privat.broulik.de
Fri Aug 21 20:40:42 UTC 2015


Hi all,

I was just looking at the Desktop Theme Details KCM (System Settings → 
Workspace Design → Details) and figured it's of not much use anymore. Imho the 
way the interaction with it worked wasn't particularly good to begin with, 
suddenly creating a "(Custom)" theme when you edited another one, but the one 
you selected in the list above isn't neccessarily the theme you're using, etc.

So, let's look at the options it offers:

* Color Scheme: Kinda works but given it also influences the background 
contrast, conflicts with the dialog/panel backgrounds
* Panel background: Doesn't always work (panel stays the same somtimes)
* Kickoff: No effect? What should it change anyway, it's up to the applet (it 
changes dialogs/kickoff, if that is even used anymore..)
* Task items: Completely screws up the task manager if I touch that
* Widget background: Seems okay
* Translucent background: also okay
* Dialog background: doesn't do anything
* Analog Clock: works, seems kinda valid usecase; though all other DEs I've 
seen just provide that in the clock itself
* Sticky Notes: Dunno, should work, but then I haven't seen a theme with 
different sticky notes - we still use the Oxygen ones even now :) One thing I 
would like to see is a default color for the notes, so a dark theme can have 
black notes by default
* Tooltip: doesn't do anything
* Pager: seems to work
* Run dialog: Given KRunner is a regular dialog nowadays doesn't do anything
* Logout dialog: Provided by LNF theme anyway
* Icons: Kinda works, mostly seems to affect only system tray, as most icons 
are provided by the overall icon theme

What should we do with this thing?

PS: Air and even more Oxygen Plasma theme are pretty broken, we should either 
fix them (especially task manager, potentially revert the follow theme color 
stuff to provide a more 4.x-esque look) or kill them.


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