My own opinion, having written the original code, is that we should simply remove it altogether. I consider it an extreme corner case for customization that, at best, belongs in a Plasma theme creation tool, not system settings.
Andrew On Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 1:40 PM Kai Uwe Broulik <k...@privat.broulik.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just looking at the Desktop Theme Details KCM (System Settings → > Workspace Design → Details) and figured it's of not much use anymore. Imho > the > way the interaction with it worked wasn't particularly good to begin with, > suddenly creating a "(Custom)" theme when you edited another one, but the > one > you selected in the list above isn't neccessarily the theme you're using, > etc. > > So, let's look at the options it offers: > > * Color Scheme: Kinda works but given it also influences the background > contrast, conflicts with the dialog/panel backgrounds > * Panel background: Doesn't always work (panel stays the same somtimes) > * Kickoff: No effect? What should it change anyway, it's up to the applet > (it > changes dialogs/kickoff, if that is even used anymore..) > * Task items: Completely screws up the task manager if I touch that > * Widget background: Seems okay > * Translucent background: also okay > * Dialog background: doesn't do anything > * Analog Clock: works, seems kinda valid usecase; though all other DEs I've > seen just provide that in the clock itself > * Sticky Notes: Dunno, should work, but then I haven't seen a theme with > different sticky notes - we still use the Oxygen ones even now :) One > thing I > would like to see is a default color for the notes, so a dark theme can > have > black notes by default > * Tooltip: doesn't do anything > * Pager: seems to work > * Run dialog: Given KRunner is a regular dialog nowadays doesn't do > anything > * Logout dialog: Provided by LNF theme anyway > * Icons: Kinda works, mostly seems to affect only system tray, as most > icons > are provided by the overall icon theme > > What should we do with this thing? > > PS: Air and even more Oxygen Plasma theme are pretty broken, we should > either > fix them (especially task manager, potentially revert the follow theme > color > stuff to provide a more 4.x-esque look) or kill them. > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >
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