D11253: Improve discoverability for changing the wallpaper

Richard Bowen noreply at phabricator.kde.org
Sat Mar 24 04:02:39 UTC 2018


richardbowen added a comment.


  In D11253#232632 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D11253#232632>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > In D11253#232607 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D11253#232607>, @richardbowen wrote:
  >
  > > Since wallpaper is a feature of the desktop I don't think mentioning wallpaper in the context menu title is necessary.
  >
  >
  > The entire point of this patch is my assertion that making the mental leap "desktop contains wallpaper" is too high a bar for many users. It's obvious for developers like us, but for normal users, it's... less than obvious.
  >
  > > the word "Configure" is used throught plasma so  maybe that's a case to work with it.
  >
  > That was what I started with, but people thought "Configure Desktop and Wallpaper" was too long.
  
  
  I just asked my sister who never tried to change the desktop wallpaper on a computer before to change the wallpaper on Plasma and...she did, quite easily. She right clicked, read the menu options, and chose the one that made sense. I think you underestimate the general user.

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  R119 Plasma Desktop

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D11253

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