Setting Look and Feels

[Nate Graham]

There have been persistent calls--both in the VDG as well as by users-- 
for the Global Theme/LNF system to become better at the "feel" side, as 
you put it (I like that!). I've still got 
https://phabricator.kde.org/D24223 open, which was about the feel side 
of the equation, and I still don't think it would be a bad idea to do.

If we don't want to make Global Themes too much about the "feel" side, 
then I think we need to create a new "Desktop Layout" KCM that's all 
about the feels. Then we could put this sort of thing you're thinking of 
in there--as well as what I was proposing in 
https://phabricator.kde.org/D24223.

Nate


On 8/31/21 10:27 AM, Aleix Pol wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was looking at why we're not getting the phone shell listed along
> our different look and feels, I realised it's because the plasma phone
> shell doesn't have any defaults at the moment. You'll think "What? No
> specific phone settings?".
> This is because we have a separate repository that installs those in
> system-wide.
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasma-phone-settings
> 
> Most of these settings (especially those in /etc/xdg/) would be
> possible to specify as defaults.
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-phone-components/-/merge_requests/183
> 
> A problem to do that straight out is that at the moment we're
> specifying each setting separately rather than taking them at bulk,
> trusting the lnf.
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/kcms/lookandfeel/kcm.cpp#L354
> 
> This works, provided we enable the different settings that we need,
> like this, doing it for every single configuration option could be
> tedious and error-prone:
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1029
> 
> Now, is this something that we would like to entertain? I'd say it's a
> good way to configure a system to use a certain Plasma experience (be
> it Plasma Phone, Big Screen, etc). On the other hand, it also might
> dilute the current use of the look and feel kcm which is more about
> Look and less about Feel.
> 
> What do you think?
> Aleix
>