Desktop Theme Details KCM

[Andrew Lake]

My own opinion, having written the original code, is that we should simply
remove it altogether. I consider it an extreme corner case for
customization that, at best, belongs in a Plasma theme creation tool, not
system settings.

Andrew

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 1:40 PM Kai Uwe Broulik <kde at privat.broulik.de> wrote:

> 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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