Review Request 126149: [Icon widget] Bring back properties dialog

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 15:17:30 UTC 2015



> On Nov. 23, 2015, 10:04 p.m., Eike Hein wrote:
> > The problem with this is that the old applet had the properties widget embedded as a page into the applet config dialog. This probably replaces the latter, killing the keyboard shortcut page and making it not possible to configure a hotkey anymore ...?
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     The old applet also just opened the KPropertiesDialog.
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> Eike Hein wrote:
>     This will still make it hard for users to access config UI they might have come to rely on (shortcuts) so it's a regression vs. the last stable release. This needs to be addressed somehow, reverting to Plasma 4 behavior is a bit of a stretch IMHO.
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     Alternatively we could keep the (empty) settings dialog as is and add another context menu option for the icon settings, like we do with a couple of applets that can spawn a KCM.
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     yeah, a second context menu item would be good in this case i think
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     Okay.
>     
>     One thing I noticed is that when I edit eg. Kate and apply in the dialog, it adds this Kate to the "open with" actions but never removes them again and now I have 20 Kate entries there :( Any idea how to prevent this?

perhaps when editing an icon that is installed globally, it then creates a copy in the home, and then disaster ensues?


- Marco


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On Nov. 23, 2015, 8:54 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 23, 2015, 8:54 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Bugs: ?
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=?
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> This brings back the KPropertiesDialog to modify an icon's appearance. This has been requested at multiple occasions. This has been adapted from the Plasma 4 icon code.
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> Diffs
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>   applets/icon/package/contents/ui/main.qml 9286b94 
>   applets/icon/plugin/icon_p.h dd7963c 
>   applets/icon/plugin/icon_p.cpp e086870 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126149/diff/
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> Testing
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> Dropped a file from my home onto the desktop -> dialog from the actual file, allowing to rename it. The applet reflected the changes.
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> Dropped an application from kickoff to the desktop -> dialog from a copy of the desktop file, allowing to change its icon and description. The applet reflected the changes.
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> Thanks,
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> Kai Uwe Broulik
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