D22728: Provide a link to KInfoCenter

Marijo Mustac noreply at phabricator.kde.org
Thu Jul 25 08:02:44 BST 2019


mmustac added a comment.


  In D22728#501819 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D22728#501819>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > An alternative approach would be to simply show KCM itself in System Settings by adding `X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category=<something>` to the `about-dostro.desktop` file that KInfoCenter ships:
  >
  > F7092747: Alternative: as a KCM.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F7092747>
  >
  > This makes it more discoverable when using Sidebar view, but has some disadvantages:
  >
  > - There isn't really a 100% appropriate parent category to put it in
  > - Visiting the KCM within System Settings doesn't expose all the information available in KInfoCenter's other pages. I suppose we could add a Show More Information button to this KCM when it's opened in something other than KInfoCenter if we wanted to pursue the alternative approach instead of the one in this patch.
  
  
  I really like this integrated approach.
  While I have no access to linux or Plasma at the moment ... but when I remember correctly there could appear a "system administration" category when installing the systemd-kcm for example.
  F7094390: KDE_5_System_Settings_on_Fedora_22_no_user_account.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F7094390>

REPOSITORY
  R124 System Settings

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D22728

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