D12849: Improve layout of fonts kcm

[Julian Wolff]

progwolff added a comment.


  In D12849#262782 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12849#262782>, @rkflx wrote:
  
  > In D12849#262781 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12849#262781>, @progwolff wrote:
  >
  > > In D12849#262777 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12849#262777>, @rkflx wrote:
  > >
  > > > BTW, what's the difference between Vendor Default and the regular Defaults button? Either we provide an option to reset to the default for every single option separately, or for none at all.
  > >
  > >
  > > Here "Vendor Default" means that no value is written to the user's `~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf`. There might be a system wide config file though that has different settings.
  >
  >
  > But the same argument holds basically for any system-wide default setting? The only difference here is that normally defaults are provided via KConfigXT, while here it comes from fontconfig. Could we simply read the vendor default value, display it in the UI and finally if the user's choice is different, write it to the user's config?
  
  
  Yep, that's a good idea. 
  The C++ side of this kcm has some problems that need to be fixed anyway. I will try to implement this when fixing those problems. But that should be a separate commit.

REPOSITORY
  R119 Plasma Desktop

BRANCH
  fonts_kcm_layout (branched from master)

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D12849

To: progwolff, mart, abetts, ngraham
Cc: zzag, rkflx, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart
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