Desktop Theme Details KCM

[Jens Reuterberg]

On Friday, August 21, 2015 09:13:11 PM Andrew Lake wrote:
> 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

I agree but, with the caveat that we really should look into some way to get 
work on a theme creator tool underfoot somehow (I have no idea what the most 
sensible way to do that would be)

> 
> 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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